On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:33 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’m on IMAP so I think any drafts are on my machine and then replicated back > to the server, if they aren’t deleted.
But that doesn't answer the question of how the Mail application is configured to handle drafts. > > Tried your suggestion - ‘uncheck account’ etc and that deleted the draft from > that account, but it created a new draft for the next account on the list. > > EG. Original draft was from One@mydomain. Next account in the sidebar list > is Two@mydomain so the new draft was from that account. > > So, tried doing the same thing for that account - uncheck etc and it then > created another draft, this time from [email protected]. Note this is a > different domain from the first two. But that doesn't answer the question of who your mail service provider is, or if there is commonality between "mydomain" and "myisp". > One thing I did have to do was alter the prefs back to the default sending > address, as it had changed to ‘automatically select the best account’. That > meant that despite selecting reply to this email, it was going to be sent > from a different email address to the original > > No idea where this goes from here. > I’ve deleted drafts on the server each time This suggests you have direct access to mail service provider's server, further suggesting you _know_ then answer to the previous question but omitted it for some reason. > since with IMAP any draft left there will probably replicate back to the > desktop. How Apple's Mail application works with drafts will probably be influenced by how the preference is set for the account, which is why two previous replies have asked about it. > > Thanks for all the help. > > Chris > >> On 7 Apr 2020, at 16:09, qb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Since I moved to Catalina my Apple Mail has an oddity. My fix might help for >> your draft. >> >> The oddity happens on occasion when I read a NEW email. While the mail >> itself loosed the BOLD font and the circle that indicates it would have not >> been read what does remain is the UNREAD MESSAGE COUNT. The message count >> does not decrease (does not reflect the true number of unread emails). >> Rebooting, Cocktail, etc. does not fix it. >> >> What DOES - open Mail preferences and uncheck “Enable this Account”. Close >> Preferences, quit Mail, relaunch Mail and re-enable this account. >> >> Poof - my unread email count is fixed. >> >> Soooo - mileage may vary but you could try those steps… >> >> qb >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
