When I write an email, mail keeps creating new drafts -- when I finally send m,y completed draft, my desktop is filled with incomplete drafts that I have to delete individually. FOR EVERY EMAIL I WRITE. I cannot find a setting to turn this off. Any ideas?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.12
Quite a common problem...
Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Your Account>Mailbox Behaviors, what path is Drafts Mailbox set to?
Setting it to an On My Mac Drafts box generally cures it if you don't need Drafts sent to other devices.
Try setting to an On My Mac Box.
Quite a common problem...
Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Your Account>Mailbox Behaviors, what path is Drafts Mailbox set to?
Setting it to an On My Mac Drafts box generally cures it if you don't need Drafts sent to other devices.
Try setting to an On My Mac Box.
Hmmm, sounds like your /Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist is corrupted, if your accounts are both IMAP & not POP you can quit Mail & try editing that file, or you can remove the Accounts & redo if its not a corrupt OS install.
Thank you for the fast response.
I note that my post listed my computer as running macOS 10.12; in actuality it's running MacOS 14.5.
(I have no idea why that is so.)
(In 14.5, I get to this via Settings>Accounts...etc.)
I have changed the setting to "On My Mac" on both my gmail & iCloud accounts, but it keeps defaulting back to "Drafts"......
Your thought sounds perfect but I can't get it to stick.
Thanks for the advice.
As it happened, somewhere along the line, Mail a new problem -- it kept restoring deleted messages into my InBox.
I ended up reinstalling the OS & the problems seem to have gone away.
Thanks for the report my friend.:)
Email keeps creating drafts as I write
