My Draft folder keeps filling up with multiple copies of email messages that I have sent

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My Draft folder keeps filling up with multiple copies of email messages that I have sent

My Draft folder keeps filling up with multiple copies of email messages that I have sent already. At first it would be an occasional thing, like a single message that I was pretty certain I sent, but maybe there was doubt. So I would send it again, and then get a message back from the recipient saying: "Why did you send that twice?"

Lately it has been getting worse and worse. Now it is not uncommon to have 30 or even 50 messages showing in the draft folder that have clearly been sent.

What is going on? It all seems to have started once I installed Lion.

How do I fix it?

MacPro, iMac, MBPro 2.66 Intel Core i7, MackBook 2 G2, various G5's, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 1 TB Time Capsule (early 2009) & Airport Express

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 9:05 PM

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Answer 1

Glen Grayson Author

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Jan 17, 2013 6:26 PM in response to Glen Grayson

Someone at the Apple Store told me that these so-called drafts are actually just multiple versions of messages I was writing. But now I am up to 1,246 drafts- it is getting a little out of hand.

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Aug 20, 2013 9:26 PM in response to Glen Grayson

Were you able to get this fixed - im having the same problem??

Otherwise I have booked in to Apple on Friday to get it sorted

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Paul_31

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Aug 21, 2013 1:59 AM in response to hopewmorrison

In Mail>Mail Preferences>Accounts>Select the Mail account on the left and then click on the 'Mailbox behaviours' tab and deselect 'Store draft messages on the server'.

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diana292

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Aug 22, 2013 10:56 AM in response to Paul_31

I have this problem, plus multiple copies of emails all over the place. But I don't want to remove anything from the server. I thought that was the whole point of cloud computing.....

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