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.
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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.0
Actually I tried to figure out the same problems many times. Finally I fixed it just with this simple way. No need to take any actions.
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
Some of us (myself included) have been able to solve this problem by deleting any unsent email that may be lingering in one of our outboxes. As explained in previous posts pretty clearly. Have you investigated this possible diagnosis/solution?
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
I'm shocked but Quitting and opening MacMail while holding down Shift key actually worked for me... I had about 6 of these random grayed emails. And now my email is working much faster as an added bonus.
I tried a LOT of things and know computers well. First I tried removing each email account and then adding it back, no luck. What seemed to do it was searching and deleting any event emails that said "decline" (restarted mail, restarted apple computer, tried opening with safe mode, tried holding down the shift button while turning on the computer.. these might have nothing to do with the solution but I was trying the recommended tricks from other comments). From there I emptied all Trash bins. I saw three emails in my Outbox and deleted those. I then went to the Mailbox Tab and chose "Synchronize All Accounts". Issue solved as of right now, if not I'll be back soon!
Holding down the Shift key when restarting Mail and choosing Bottom View or Side View do nothing to stop the blank windows from appearing to the left of my Inbox window.
And how do you make the "Out Box" appear? I do not see it in my left column of anywhere else.
It is still happening in 14.1.1
:-(
I'm hoping it is something to do with outlook/live/msn/hotmail accounts.
It is the wife's computer, and the password to her outlook account got blanked/disappeared/vanished/erased/deleted.
She had/has no output mailboxes.
Having this same issue. I have no unsent mail. I have re-verified all email accounts, force quit email, re-started numerous times and did a software update. I am quite annoyed with the whole thing. Just started yesterday.
Okay don't know why after trying everything noted here that I could. NO OUTBOX ever showed in the hour I was trying to fix. SUDDENLY an OUTBOX showed with an email I had tried to send, deleted that email and fixed so far. How or why OUTBOX suddenly appeared, I have no idea.
For all who cannot see the outbox folder here's a way to show it:
1) Go on Mailbox -> Turn all account offline
2) Send an test email to an e-mail address of your choice
Now the outbox folder should appear, in my case there where 3 e-mails which had to be deleted to rid of the empty windows.
3) Turn all accounts online again
It's not the app itself that won't close, it's a blank send form window that opens right after the app opens and can't be closed. The shift open results in the same blank send form opening.
Have you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?
Me too!
Rebooting into the safe mode produced the same result. Blank send form will not go away. Checked startup items. Looks like I'll need to reinstall OS Ventura.
The Mac mail app opens with separate blank draft, I am unable to delete.
