Hi, Setup : Apple Mail 2.1.1 (752.3) on Intel MacBook Pro and Dovecot 1.0rc22 on Solaris 9/SPARC. I use IMAP/TLS. Problem : mails are stacking up in the Drafts folder. When I start writing a mail, it appears in the drafts folder, and usually disappear as desired when I hit "Send". It then appear in the "Sent" folder. Sometimes, a draft versions stays in "Drafts", I have 21 of them since 1.1.2007. In this period, I have written about 400 emails, so only about 5 % stick in "Drafts". I can of course periodically select and delete them, but I don't like such glitches. Never sure if emails are really sent. Advice welcome. I'm the Solaris packager and admin so I can test things if needed. Sorry if it's a known Apple Mail issue, I would be the one to beat for using closed-source stuff :-) Charles -- Charles Bueche <charles at bueche.ch> sand, snow, wave, wind and net -surfer A-Cat SUI 192
> Setup : Apple Mail 2.1.1 (752.3) on Intel MacBook Pro and Dovecot > 1.0rc22 on Solaris 9/SPARC. I use IMAP/TLS. > > Problem : mails are stacking up in the Drafts folder. > > When I start writing a mail, it appears in the drafts folder, and > usually disappear as desired when I hit "Send". It then appear in the > "Sent" folder. > > Sometimes, a draft versions stays in "Drafts", I have 21 of them since > 1.1.2007. In this period, I have written about 400 emails, so only about > 5 % stick in "Drafts".For what its worth - I have had this problem ever since I started using IMAP... we had it when we used Courier-imap, and we have it using dovecot (both on linux, using Thunderbird for the client)... It is kind of irritating, but I kind of got used to it, and tell people to just delete these on a regular basis... Not that I wouldn't like to see this problem fixed... ;) -- Best regards, Charles
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 12, 2007, at 3:38 AM, Charles Bueche wrote:> Setup : Apple Mail 2.1.1 (752.3) on Intel MacBook Pro and Dovecot > 1.0rc22 on Solaris 9/SPARC. I use IMAP/TLS. > > Problem : mails are stacking up in the Drafts folder.I see the same thing under both Dovecot and courier-imap. I've chalked it up to Mail.app glitches. I haven't actually looked to see what happens with other mail clients. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRdBkaXEjvBPtnXfVAQLgogP9F1Mbjy8xfkBA0iVwLCuIzZ43dh+Y1YoW AMdGJXMhjKHZgT5TKOCuTPKS8pG0z5U3ijSVfZw8FX5O5AMYTZ5PoaO6Sf64G4CM ALuZwqsPney+30I9+waaEXiwZf+Ygf/2A3nqAnIIrdk0s7kNNuAcM0gmwiwyOOm9 oTPgyXiI2s8=6h+1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:38:02AM +0100, Charles Bueche wrote:> I can of course periodically select and delete them, but I don't like > such glitches. Never sure if emails are really sent.I've had this problem with Courier too. Even worse, there have been some issues where changes to drafts haven't been saved to the server, losing hours of work. Since I seldom need to "port" drafts from one machine to the other I've just turned off "save copies of drafts on server". -- Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
> Hi, > > Setup : Apple Mail 2.1.1 (752.3) on Intel MacBook Pro and Dovecot > 1.0rc22 on Solaris 9/SPARC. I use IMAP/TLS. > > Problem : mails are stacking up in the Drafts folder. > > When I start writing a mail, it appears in the drafts folder, and > usually disappear as desired when I hit "Send". It then appear in the > "Sent" folder. > > Sometimes, a draft versions stays in "Drafts", I have 21 of them > since 1.1.2007. In this period, I have written about 400 emails, so > only about 5 % stick in "Drafts". > > I can of course periodically select and delete them, but I don't like > such glitches. Never sure if emails are really sent.Apple Mail will auto-save messages to the drafts folder if you idle too long while composing. This could also happen if the computer goes to sleep. I know of no way to disable this. However, there is an option in the preferences on the accounts tab under mailbox behaviors to save it to the server, you could disable that. -- Kenny Dail <kend at amigo.net>
Hi again, Thanks for all the high-quality feedback. Using a local folder (instead of storing "Drafts" on the IMAP server) solved the issue. BTW : thanks Timo and others for this amazing piece of code. It's so fast, even for IMAP boxes containing 20'000+ messages, that I don't see any reason to use local mailboxes anymore. Best regards, Charles On 12 f?vr. 07, at 09:38, Charles Bueche wrote:> Hi, > > Setup : Apple Mail 2.1.1 (752.3) on Intel MacBook Pro and Dovecot > 1.0rc22 on Solaris 9/SPARC. I use IMAP/TLS. > > Problem : mails are stacking up in the Drafts folder. > > When I start writing a mail, it appears in the drafts folder, and > usually disappear as desired when I hit "Send". It then appear in > the "Sent" folder. > > Sometimes, a draft versions stays in "Drafts", I have 21 of them > since 1.1.2007. In this period, I have written about 400 emails, so > only about 5 % stick in "Drafts". > > I can of course periodically select and delete them, but I don't > like such glitches. Never sure if emails are really sent. > > Advice welcome. I'm the Solaris packager and admin so I can test > things if needed. > > Sorry if it's a known Apple Mail issue, I would be the one to beat > for using closed-source stuff :-) > > Charles > > -- > Charles Bueche <charles at bueche.ch> > sand, snow, wave, wind and net -surfer > A-Cat SUI 192 >-- Charles Bueche <charles at bueche.ch> sand, snow, wave, wind and net -surfer A-Cat SUI 192