Where did Thunderbird Put My "Send Later" Draft?
After spending an hour getting an important email draft just right, Thunderbird (102.14.0) wouldn't send it because it thought it was more important to compact a bunch of folders. So I clicked File / Send Later. Now I can't find it.
I searched every way I know how, eyeballed all the folders in the account, even searched on the host server.
Then I looked on this forum and now (too late) know that Send Later has had issues.
Are there any suggestions about where to look for this draft email?
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
When you use 'Send Later' the email is prepared for sending and stored in the 'Outbox' folder which you will find in 'Local Folders' mail account.
In the same way a draft is deleted when you send and copy is put into 'Sent' folder, the draft is deleted when you use Send Later as copy of email is now in 'Outbox'. When you send the email - it is then copied to 'Sent' folder.
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Update: Problem dissolved. But I'd still like to know where the email draft went.
After searching for it (above), I exited and restarted TB. It asked if it should send my unsent messages. Woot!
But TB couldn't send through the account's smtp server. It kept timing out. Not clear if TB did something funny or the server just happened to become unavailable.
Getting back to it after a couple of hours, when I told it to send the unsent messages the draft went out.
I'd still like to know where TB hides those drafts.
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
When you use 'Send Later' the email is prepared for sending and stored in the 'Outbox' folder which you will find in 'Local Folders' mail account.
In the same way a draft is deleted when you send and copy is put into 'Sent' folder, the draft is deleted when you use Send Later as copy of email is now in 'Outbox'. When you send the email - it is then copied to 'Sent' folder.