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

I seem to have a variant on this with Apple Mail and Gmail.

Gmail saves a draft about every 30 seconds by default I believe and moves the old one to the Bin as each new one is created. This is not much of a problem unless one adds a big attachment early in the compostioin in which case it uses a lot of bandwidth writing it amd moving it.

My main problem is that randomly the last draft is not deleted when I send, so sometimes I find a draft and assume I fogot to send and do it again. As a result recipients think I am loosing it!

Cheers, Colin

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

It's still happening to me on a random basis - surely someone knows why it does and how to stop it!

Cheers, Colin

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???

Any luck with this?? I am having this issue as well, after clean installing Mountain Lion,

Never use to happen in Snow Leopard, this is very odd.

going to genius bar tomorrow. will report back! :-)

sorry -- going friday.

Thanks appreciate that!

Had the same issue(s)

Turned off, "store drafts on the server" in Apple Mail. Its really a work around.

At least it worked for me. Solved both issues 1) sent mail going to drafts... 2) multiple draft copies created

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how_to_configure_apple_mail_to_avoid_duplicate_drafts_with_gmail

wow. that was easy. funny that 2 different one to one teachers didn't know that! thanks! The older ones that were already there are still there, but a test email sent did not end up there.

Isn't that what I suggested in my first reply in this discussion?

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'd also like to thank Glenn Leblanc and Claudius for resolution of this issue. Would like to add that only one account was being sent and also saved to the "draft" folder. That account I had recently marked as a "VIP".

Removing the VIP status did not resolve the issue, but unchecking save drafts on server did resolve it. 😉

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.

Same thing happening here ... how does it get resolved. Please help.