Re: Unable to delete draft in Mail

On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:33 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I’m on IMAP so I think any drafts are on my machine and then replicated back to the server, if they aren’t deleted.


But that doesn't answer the question of how the Mail application is configured to handle drafts. 



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> Tried your suggestion - ‘uncheck account’ etc and that deleted the draft from that account, but it created a new draft for the next account on the list.
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> EG.  Original draft was from One@mydomain.  Next account in the sidebar list is Two@mydomain so the new draft was from that account.
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> So, tried doing the same thing for that account - uncheck etc and it then created another draft, this time from [email protected].  Note this is a different domain from the first two.


But that doesn't answer the question of who your mail service provider is, or if there is commonality between "mydomain" and "myisp".





> One thing I did have to do was alter the prefs back to the default sending address, as it had changed to ‘automatically select the best account’.  That meant that despite selecting reply to this email, it was going to be sent from a different email address to the original
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> No idea where this goes from here.  


> I’ve deleted drafts on the server each time


This suggests you have direct access to mail service provider's server, further suggesting you _know_ then answer to the previous question but omitted it for some reason.




> since with IMAP any draft left there will probably replicate back to the desktop.


How Apple's Mail application works with drafts will probably be influenced by how the preference is set for the account, which is why two previous replies have asked about it. 


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> Thanks for all the help.
> 
> Chris
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>> On 7 Apr 2020, at 16:09, qb <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Since I moved to Catalina my Apple Mail has an oddity. My fix might help for your draft.
>> 
>> The oddity happens on occasion when I read a NEW email. While the mail itself loosed the BOLD font and the circle that indicates it would have not been read what does remain is the UNREAD MESSAGE COUNT. The message count does not decrease (does not reflect the true number of unread emails). Rebooting, Cocktail, etc. does not fix it.
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>> What DOES - open Mail preferences and uncheck “Enable this Account”. Close Preferences, quit Mail, relaunch Mail and re-enable this account.
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>> Poof - my unread email count is fixed.
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>> Soooo - mileage may vary but you could try those steps…
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>> qb
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