It will still appear on the toolbar if you have it showing (to show, select Show Toolbar in Mail's menu under View).Ĭreate a test message and send. Restart Mail and the draft folder should not appear in the sidebar.
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Once again highlight the Inbox and quit Mail. If all's OK from there, delete the test drafts you created. Verify that it is not saved to the gmail draft folder in the sidebar bottem or gmail website. Quit and restart Mail and verify Mail's preferences remain unchecked for storing drafts on the server.Ĭreate a new message and save as draft. That should move the draft mailbox back under the gmail folder. Once that's done, go back into Mail's preferences and uncheck to store drafts on the server. Verify that it's also saved at the gmail website (should also appear in the draft folder under gmail account at sidebar bottem). Open Mail's preferences and check to see that the box to store messages on the server is checked.Ĭreate and save a test draft message. That should move the draft folder from the gmail folder to Mail's main draft mailbox.
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Select the draft folder under that gmail account in the sidebar, then go to Mailboxes in the menu and select Use This Mailbox for: drafts. You may have some corruption within the Mail folder or preferences. Well if you have no draft mailbox list in the Mailbox folder, then it's obvious that it's not creating one for that account or any other, meaning it's putting the drafts in the IMAP draft folder.