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Mac Mail app has blank draft window that openings when you boot the app. You can't get close it or delete it. Restarting the Mac doesn't help. How do I get ride of it?

The Mac mail app opens with a separate blank copy of a draft form that will not send or close. I have tried to delete it but nothing works.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 23, 2022 9:11 AM

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Mar 27, 2023 3:35 PM in response to Karna8000

I have a MacBook Pro purchased in Feb 2023 M2 chip. This problem just surfaced about 2 weeks ago. I have done all the above. Called Apple and did safe mode and problem persisted. Now I need to uninstall Ventura and reinstall. I note above that this did not solve the problem for at least one person. I am dreading doing that because I had so many incompatibilities with other applications (Dropbox, etc) although Apple reassures me that the current version of Ventura is much more compatible than the first version.

Has anyone solved this and, importantly, figured out WHY this has developed?

TY, Frankie

Mar 27, 2023 6:56 PM in response to Pete the trumpet

Thank you many of us do not have any email in an outbox. Since there is no email we dont have an outbox showing as it is designed. So we have just a frozen window, further Macmail is stripping the default smtp account ( I have multiple email addresses in my macmail interphase) . Is apple going to do anything? I suspect it is this default smtp issue every time this happens I have to force quit. I go back in settings and reestablish the default SMTP account for each account. Email works for a few and then it happens again.

Apr 2, 2023 3:14 PM in response to good sleep

This issue can be resolved by 1) force quitting 2) some people say delete from outbox but many don’t see the email in a outbox 3) go to settings and assign outgoing server to email account even thought these values have already been set and accounts doesn’t hold on to them


yes these various solutions work. They are not practical especially if this happens very often like daily. A fix would be helpful

Mac Mail app has blank draft window that openings when you boot the app. You can't get close it or delete it. Restarting the Mac doesn't help. How do I get ride of it?

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