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All drafts messages saving to All Mail

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This morning I started writing an email but I kept getting called away and so it took over an hour to complete. The message went Ok and appears in my sent folder. However, there are now 4 iterations of it, all with different time stamps and containing the message contents at each particular stage of the draft in my All Mail folder right up to and including the one that was sent. Clearly it isn't really desirable to have these saved so before I delete them have you any idea what (if anything) has gone wrong?

This morning I started writing an email but I kept getting called away and so it took over an hour to complete. The message went Ok and appears in my sent folder. However, there are now 4 iterations of it, all with different time stamps and containing the message contents at each particular stage of the draft in my All Mail folder right up to and including the one that was sent. Clearly it isn't really desirable to have these saved so before I delete them have you any idea what (if anything) has gone wrong?

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The allmail folder is just - all mail, and that includes drafts. it also has all incoming messages and outgoing messages. That is why use of the allmail folder is rarely recommended when using an email client.

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