Messages in Drafts Folder gone missing

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Messages in Drafts Folder gone missing

Hi folks,

I'm having an annoying problem with mail at the moment. I had 6 or 7 messages saved in the drafts folder of Mail.app, just now I went to do some work on one of the drafts and discovered that it is not in the drafts folder, along with another missing draft, leaving me with only 5 drafts.

I have done a search in Mail.app of all the folders using appropriate keywords, did the same with spotlight to search for it but it has totally disappeared. I have tried searching the forums here and on Google and the only clue was to rebuild the mailbox, but when i tried to do this the "Rebuild Mailbox" option was greyed-out so I couldn't do it.

This is on 10.4.4 with Mail.app version 2.0.5

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Gary

PowerBook G4 1.25GHz FW800 Mac OS X (10.4.4) Mail.app version is 2.0.5

Posted on Jan 18, 2006 6:27 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 18, 2006 6:32 PM in response to iSilver

Hello,

What type of account are using? If not POP, but rather IMAP or .mac, have you selected to keep the Drafts mailbox on the server, or on your Mac.

More info, please.

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Jan 18, 2006 6:39 PM in response to iSilver

i just discovered that if I click on the individual folders in the Drafts folder I can then click "Rebuild Mailbox" - so I did this but the missing messages didn't appear.

All my accounts are set up as POP.

PowerBook G4 1.25GHz FW800

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Answer 3

Jan 18, 2006 6:48 PM in response to iSilver

If you open the Mail folder, in the Finder (Home/Library/Mail/the subject account's POP folder) and find the Drafts.mbox folder within the POP account folder for this account, what are the files within? In the folder within, named Messages how many messages (.emlx) files are shown?

More info, please.

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Jan 18, 2006 7:15 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

My Drafts folder in Mail.app has 7 folders in it, the total number of drafts files (as in .emlx files) contained in those 7 folders is 5, same as in Mail.app.

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