Drafts Bug?

Having the same exact problem. Drove me crazy. Lost two long emails I have to retype now. They were drafts from my iPhone. Made an edit on the iPad saved draft and it deleted!!! Scary.

Are you saving drafts "On the Server" or "On my iPad"?

The default seems to be 'On my iPad'. I have all mine set to "On the Server" via "Advanced". I couldn't reproduce the behavior you describe using either setting.

I have been experiencing very similar buggy behavior with the Drafts folder. I've found three distinct problems over the past few weeks. I've done some careful testing, and these all happen pretty often, some all of the time:
1. I edit an existing draft and try to resave it (cancel/save), and the changes are not saved
2. I edit an existing draft and the to/from and subject info are replaced by the information from a different Drafts message
3. I send an existing draft and what arrives is a message with no content. And there is no record of the message being sent from my Sent folder.

I have filed problem 1. as a bug with Apple. I will file the others as well.

For reference:
- The email account is a MobileMe account
- I have the Advanced settings configured to save Drafts on the server
- I have not seen these problems occur on the Mac or iPhone versions of mail, only the iPad.

happy,
Who is your mail ISP? IMAP has much more interaction between the client and server than POP. So someone with a different server may not encounter these bugs. g has a MobileMe account, which is good in that it will get more attention from Apple.

g4444 wrote:
- The email account is a MobileMe account

Try happy's suggestions and see if it works. If not, since you have a MobileMe account, you should consider filing a bug report with Apple.

I had all the same issues with Gmail on my iPad this morning as were listed above. I found a helpful posting at http://echeng.com/journal/2010/04/05/how-to-properly-set-up-gmail-with-your-ipad / This helped but I also had to look at Google's recommendations for setting up mail on an iPhone. In the end I set up imap manually, and then changed the advanced settings after reestablishing the account. See https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892# After some testing, the problems appear to be solved.

Has Apple acknowledged this bug? I am having the same issue where the To: addresses are being changed using Exchange.

Same problemen here, receiver address and mail subject are suddenly changed when editting à draft mail. VERY annoying. Anyone already has a solution?

I've been having a nightmare with this.

My accounts are setup as IMAP accounts and are accessed from 2 computers and an iPhone and iPad.

I often have a number of email messages in my drafts folder and repeatedly my iPad has sent an email I have edited from the drafts folder to the wrong recipient. On one occasion this was extremely embarrassing! The person it sends the email to is always the recipient of another email in my drafts folder - ie I'll have one email I am in the middle of writing to Dave and another one to Tracy, I'll edit the one to Dave, send it and it'll be sent to Tracy instead. From memory the iPad will then remove both the draft for Dave and the one for Tracy, even though I have just emailed ine of them.

I'm confident it's not an issue with my mail ISP as it works fine with my other computers.

It's got to the point where I am unable to edit and send draft messages on my iPad as I don't know who they'll be sent to.

Been using iPad instead of MacBook Air 90% of the time and I have now lost three great, very long email drafts in my IMAP account because I thought they were being saved in 'Drafts' folder. This is extremely annoying. When I hit 'save' I actually expect it to save 'somewhere' locally or on the server.

After reading these posts I went into advanced settings and identified a folder on the server and all seems to be working with test emails now. Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences.

I've had similar problems with my MobileMe mail on my 'Pad: deleted Subjects, etc.

After reading all the posts on this topic, I tried changing my Drafts folder from the server to my iPad. The result was that two drafts on the server were visible, but could not be edited or moved. I tried reversing the Drafts location, but to no avail. I finally recreated them (both very short, thankfully) and sent them. The drafts on my iPad could be deleted, and were.

I haven't yet looked at the iPad User Guide to see what it says about these oddities.

Anyone know what the rules are?

harv47

I've seen this on my iPad with Exchange 2010 messages and possibly with Google mail also. It's not just a MobileMe issue for sure. Also, what I usually see is it swaps the header (to,cc, subject, etc..) of a different message in the iPad drafts folder with the message body of a different drafts message. Very odd..