Q: Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder

Just so Gmail and Mac users don't feel bad, Outlook.com (formerly hotmail) has the same issues with IMAP as Gmail.

Also, I have the same issues with Drafts on my PC using Outlook and IMAP as I did on my iMac using Mail or Outlook with IMAP.

Steve

You have one more grateful follower.  I have needed to turn to your instructions twice.  Fortunately, I had them bookmarked.  My next challenge is to overcome Mail's very sluggish performance on my iMac. I have a vey large and highly hierarchical set of email folders and a lots of stored messages.  Any suggestions?

And yet another grateful follower.

I modified my gmail as you suggested in October, but I didn't need to update anything on the Mac Mail side.

Mails started coming in again... so it looks like Apple haven't figured out how to get around the labels problem, as a simple offline/online method in their work around is worth nothing.

Hope Apple fixes this soon.

Same problem here.

What's worse, after the udpate it also stopped syncing properly. Before I would delete an email from my GMAIL and it would be gone from my Mail app on my Mac as well, but now I have to delete everything twice. Hugely frustrating.

Is there any point in writing a formal petition? Do Apple employees read these posts?

My wife was in tears earlier having discovered that for the past month hundreds of emails have been sent to trash, many with subjects deleted or cut short, it also appears that many have not actually gone out.

I searched on here and found Steve Rhyne's comment from Oct 24 and it seems to have fixed it.

I then returned to my Mac and, unbelievably, the same has been going on with my Gmail, but fortunately, I don't use it much (hating it's format).

Thanks so much Steve

Thank you.  I have been looking for this info for almost a year now.  My issue started before Maveriks was released.

Thank you very much Steve!

I have been struggling with this issue for longer than I care to admit!!

Best,

Stewart

Steve's fix doesn't work for me. It fixes this Drafts in the Trash thing, but it messes up many other folders. I lose lots of emails.

Hope Apple fixes this as I have to go into the Trash and delete all those drafts every day. It's a pain. Might be enought to drive me back to POPing instead of IMAPing.

I am resigned to going into Trash every few days, sorting on the From column, and deleting all the emails from me. 

I truly hate being made a pawn of commercial rivalry between two corporates who care more about their egos than their customers.  Egos don't make you rich, guys - customers do.

Yep, that's exactly what I've been doing.

Thanks Steve - this had been annoying for quite a while.

Hi,

I found an easy way to edit drafts. I was very frustrated also.

Just choose your message and then go up under file and open it and you can edit the draft.

Becky

Steve, where on gmail.com do you disable

"Store draft messages on the server" ?

I found it on mail.app; but it looked you you suggested above to do this on gmail.com in settings somewhere... I am having drafts show up in trash in duplicates, all began when I started using an iPhone for some reason. Worked fine using my Incredible 2 with the gmail.app (android)

Thanks! David

My suggestion is to stop wasting your life organising emails into hierarchical folders. Leave it all in the inbox and learn to use Apple Mail's search to find what  you want. Occasional 'Smart Folders' can help too.

Thanks! anything to get rid of a mess...... and I was getting paranoid about it.... and it was filling up the phone as well as the laptop.