Apple Mail puts a email in "DRAFTS" after I send it?

I also experience the same issue with my me.com email account.

it is very uncertain situation as i don't know whether the receipient got my mail or not. Sometimes it gets back to drft box after 1 day. Please help me.

I am very frustrated with this as well, and it was not occurring on my old MBP, only on my new one. I don't like seeing all of my sent emails in the draft folder, because previously, only my UNSENT drafts were there, which seems to be the meaning of the word DRAFT, doesn't it? Apple store instructor told me this is how the MAIL application now words. ARgh. is this true???

Thank you to Glenn Leblanc and Claudius 2K for solving the problem of emails staying in drafts after sending them!!! I love Apple Support!! PS I too could not get an explanation from the one on one Apple guy on why that happened!!!

I unchecked this option and after I excited and went back in to OPTIONS it was checked again. My settings are not being saved in OPTIONS for mail. This saved draft is really driving me crazy because I panic that something isn't sent. Very frustrating. May have to stop a Apple store tomorrow.

This works, if you don't want drafts saved.

I DO want drafts saved so I can continue on another computer if i need to. What I don't ant is what happens randomly and others have complained of above, is for the last darft to be saved AFTER the email has been sent.

Cheers,

Colin

can somebody tell me, if I see the mails in my "sent" folder in google mail, if they have been sent for sure?! this is really annoying!!!!!! I need to know if those emails were sent or not.

I just got the new macbook pro and mail is driving me nuts. never had problems with my old macbook for over several years. can't believe they can't fix that if it has been working on the old macbooks without any problems!!!

AFAIK if it is in the Sent folder it's gone [I have an additional problem as I delete many emails once sent, tehn find it in Drafts so can't be sure it has gone, though usually I find that it has].

Cheers,

Colin

I have the same problem. I try to send a message in Mail, and sometimes (but not always) it ends up in the drafts folder. I do not know then whether it has gone out, or not.

Also, I find no way to send this “draft” on its way.

This is a bad interface design. The user should always be able to see what is going on, and there should always be a way for the user to actuate needed processes (in this case, getting mail to GO).

Unchecking the "store drafts on the server" in the "Mailbox Behaviours" does not apply for me as I do want to keep Drafts (as long as they are not sent) in the Drafts folder to edit them from any other Apple device. Actually, AFTER successfully sending a mail it sometimes appears both in the Sent AND Drafts folder - this is not the idea - isn´t it?

If you are not connected to the internet it can do this so you can send it at a later time. Maybe the password authentication for Gmail is not working.

I have the same problem(s). Sent mail goes to the Drafts folder regardless of settings and occassionally there are numerous copies in Drafts.