MAIL & gMAIL - auto save drafts

Hmmm, I wonder how it's doing that, mine doesn't even know if it's a Draft unless I chose Save as Draft!?

Is this when just composing a New Message, or some other way of starting?

How long does it have to sit there before it does it on yours? Are you quitting Mail or anything?

Hmmm, never caught it in Drafts, but the one sitting there for an hour IS in the Trash.
Only solution I can see is Mail>Preferences>Accounts, highlight your Gmail account>Mailbox Behaviors tab>Trash>Permantly Erase Trash when... Quitting Mail perhaps?

I assume you right click or control+click on gmail in Mail then choose Syncronize [this] Account.

It looks like you can Syncronize just the Trash also. The Web end only shows the ones in the last 30 days, even if there are more in Mail Trash!?

My suggestion is that you turn off the "Store draft messages on the server" in the Account info settings, under *Mail Behaviors.* (Go to Mail Preferences ==> Accounts; or click on the Associated Mailbox and then Right Click to get Account Info. Either approach will get you to the property pages where you will see the Behaviors tab)

I noticed this with Gmail (using IMAP) and it appears that by default, Apple Mail will save a draft EVERY 30 seconds. I had a Blackberry that was also set up as an IMAP device and although I only SENT one message, it was causing multiple messages to be sent to my Blackberry. I would have a new message every 30 seconds while I was typing my new message or even on a reply.

There were also multiple messages in the Trash from the same message as it was being composed.
Whether this was caused by settings on the Blackberry, I never really pursued, but unchecking the "Store draft messages on the server" solved my problem.

Hi mctrader , and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Great tip/post, thanks! 🙂