I know that this question has been asked many times, but I have not found an answer. My Gmail draft-box has reached 2'748 drafts today... Has anybody found a solution to permanently stop Mail saving drafts every word you type in an Email? This is so frustrating. Thanks a lot for any tips how to stop this!
MacBook Pro, iOS 10.3.3
It's not at all clear what your real issue actually is.
Apple's Mail application saves drafts as you compose emails. When you send the message, the draft is deleted. You have not told us what method you actually use to compose these gmail messages. Do you use Apple's Mail application? If so, do you actually end up sending the messages?
You can always use Safari to go to http://www.gmail.com and delete all the messages in your draft mailbox from there.
Is there a flippy triangle to the left of the "Drafts" mailbox?
If so, click the flippy triangle and make sure all these drafts are in fact in a gmail mailbox.
Thank you for your fast reply, sberman. Yes, I use Apple's Mail application and it looks like the drafts are not deleted once the Email is sent. It shows over 2000 drafts, but if I open the drafts, I can only see 5 to 10 Emails (which have been already sent...). Don't know where these other 2'700 drafts are... If I sign-in to my Gmail account, there are no drafts to be deleted.
If you compose a mail in apple mail application and then type the credentials ( fill up the mail addresses and subject ) and then close the mail compose window they will be saved , and if you are saving thousands of mails with the same procedure they will get accumulated .
They can be viewed if you click on drop arrows of drafts and select google , the drafts folder and its mails will appear in mail side bar , to delete them select them in fractions and press command and delete on the keyboard .
The correct setting in mail preferences > mailbox behaviours is .
If you enter in webmail account by entering the gmail address and password and compose a mail then close the window , the mail will be saved as draft .
In this example screen shot there are only two mails , select them and click on discard
In your case if there are thousands of mails saved as draft , select all of them so they get a check mark and discard them .
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