How do I make Mail stop saving drafts I don't want saved?

Ever since I upgraded to El Capitan, "Save this message as a draft?" apparently does not believe me when I click "Don't Save". The draft still ends up in my "Drafts" folder. I can't find a setting that seems applicable. My email accounts are all POP, I don't use The Cloud.


How can I make Mail believe I'm serious when I click "Don't Save"?


Thanks!

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Jan 21, 2016 12:43 PM

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Dec 4, 2016 4:23 PM in response to ipgsamy

This is still an issue in Sierra! Mail seems now to be held together by sticky tape and string. I get the message:

"Saving 0 of 0 drafts - 18.2 MB"

And then mail just sits there for 20 minutes. It does this every time I restart mail!


And there is now next to zero feedback on what precisely Mail is doing as it sits there, churning. The "Activity" window shows almost no detail (and Apple hasn't even bothered to scale the interface properly! — widen the window to see this), and there is no longer any feedback shown in the sidebar, as there was in El Capitan.


I would like ALL my draft messages from ALL my email accounts stored on my Mac (as this would be instantaneous), but as Apple stubbornly sticks to a 20th Century email paradigm, such mundane features become impossible feats.

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