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Created/Written messages remain in folder "Drafts" for ever

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Mick P. F.
Mick P. F.

Hello,

starting with thunderbird verson 91.0.x written messages remain in the folder "Drafts" after successful sending them!

Since I have a sufficiently fast connection to the Internet, it cannot be a problem of the connection speed! It cannot be due to the email provider (Google.com) either, as it does not happen on my smartphone with an other email client.

I think this is a bug in thunderbird that annoys me as I have to delete them every time after sending.

Did somebody make the same experience?

Thanks in advance, Michael

Hello, starting with thunderbird verson 91.0.x written messages remain in the folder "Drafts" after successful sending them! Since I have a sufficiently fast connection to the Internet, it cannot be a problem of the connection speed! It cannot be due to the email provider (Google.com) either, as it does not happen on my smartphone with an other email client. I think this is a bug in thunderbird that annoys me as I have to delete them every time after sending. Did somebody make the same experience? Thanks in advance, Michael

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See KeithR in this post about Gmail duplicating drafts - see the last entry in the thread with the pictures. https://support.google.com/mail/thread/14985877/how-to-make-gmail-stop-accumulating-drafts-and-delete-drafts-for-sent-emails?hl=en Gmail is a bit tricky as it does some things in an unusual non-standard IMAP way. So try looking at the settings KeithR illustrates and change them to prevent Thunderbird from saving a second draft, and let Gmail deal with deleting drafts. Let us know what works!

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Matt
Matt
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I use google, I have no problem. So I suggest you try some of the more mundane things like restart in troubleshoot mode and see if you have a bad addon.

Mick P. F.
Mick P. F. Question owner

I've tried your suggestion: The problem persists in troubleshooting mode (without any extensions) also...

AgnesRM
AgnesRM

Chosen Solution

See KeithR in this post about Gmail duplicating drafts - see the last entry in the thread with the pictures. https://support.google.com/mail/thread/14985877/how-to-make-gmail-stop-accumulating-drafts-and-delete-drafts-for-sent-emails?hl=en Gmail is a bit tricky as it does some things in an unusual non-standard IMAP way. So try looking at the settings KeithR illustrates and change them to prevent Thunderbird from saving a second draft, and let Gmail deal with deleting drafts. Let us know what works!

Mick P. F.
Mick P. F. Question owner

Hello AgnesRM,

These settings mean that the messages in the Drafts folder are not cached at all, but I prefer them to numerous copies that I have to delete over and over again.

Thank you for your advice and help!

Kind Regards, Michael