Q: Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder

Yes, but the update doesn't fix the many-draft-trashings issue. I like Steve's solution as a workaround, but syncing drafts with the server is a really useful feature that I will miss until it is truly fixed.

PS: another semi "workaround" is to set the trash to clear daily or when you quit Mail. Obviously this is no good if you like to keep your trash longer. But for me personally I'd rather have the drafts synced.

Confirming that Steve's fix (supra) works with the Nov 7 Mavericks Mail update.

Down side is that mobile devices using iOS7 can no longer take advantage of saving drafts to the server as you are turning it off at the source.

This is too bad since iOS7 (and 6) can handle the Drafts issue properly.

The Apple iOS team needs to teach the Mavericks Mail team a few lessons ASAP.

The weirdness is when "I ended up getting 138 draft message copy of of a mail I wrote for long time in various sessions."

You need to hide the Drafts folder from IMAP and then you'll be able to uncheck the 'Save Drafts To Server Option'.

This stops the multiple drafts but you lose syncing drafts to the server.

I am quite frankly stunned Apple didn't fix this obvious issue in the Mail update. Had to apply the fix again to a less frequently used gmail account today that just constantly creating multiple drafts copies in the draft folder as I typed.

today also had the feeling that the syncing still didn't work properly (some mails on my iphone mail.app didn't show in my OS X mail.app) anybody else experiencing that problem still?
Also hate it that deleting mails doesn't archive but actually deletes the mails entirely; contrary to mail under Mountain Lion... Please restore that feature Apple!

thank you steve, your fix worked!

So I'm right in thinking that the only way around this at present is to turn off drafts syncing in the Gmail settings? Not exactly an ideal solution and I thought this was a fix that Apple would have made in the recent "Mail fix". I'm beginnging to wonder why I bothered upgrading to Mavericks - absolutely nothing of any use compare to Mountain Lion and a much slower machine!

I absolutely concur Alan - I too have noticed a drop in speed with Mavericks.

I had Lion before and that was faster and less troublesome too. There is also an issue with Screen Saver: with Lion I could chose a Screen Saver from iPhoto 9. That option is no longer available with Mavericks, and I'm far from being the only one that has noticed that quirk. Not a partucularly good upgrade at all - perhaps that's why it was free!

Yep, I think I'll be going back to Mountain Lion when I find the time to wipe my HD and install from scratch. I remember when upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard and it was an incredle speed difference and kinda hoped this would be the same… Unfortunately not.

it's not in Apple's interest to make gmail convenient

Maybe not, but as it's actually a fault of mavericks then they should get it fixed! Anyway, I decided to go back to mountain lion last night until mavericks actually works... a quite hopeless OS.

Naw, they're up to something. They could have made it work...google and apple constantly do this to each other, and customers get caught up in the middle of them fighting. It's there for a reason...I'm sure there will be a renewed push for an Apple email service or something soon.

This idea of going back to Mountain Lion sounds awesome, is it difficult?

Not really, as long as you have everything backed up (and not with time machine, use something like superduper which creates an actual backup and not some weird file structure that time machine does). Just create a bootable mountain lion thumb drive (use lion diskmaker for that) and then restart from that, use disk utility to erase your drive and then install mountain lion.

I generally do this every 6 months or so anyway just to get rid of any rubbish that's built up on my the Mac. Just remember the full backup though!