Mac Mail saving tons of drafts on Gmail whenever I compose an email

hoogie · 29 Sep 2012 at 10:53

Hi All,

I have been using Sparrow for Mac for a while now but since it got bought out by Google I have decided to return to Mac Mail.

I seem to have got the majority of the Mail settings working correctly (something I never managed on Lion so seems they have improved it on Mountain Lion) however I run into a pretty big issue.

When I got to my deleted items it seems that there are tons of drafts of any email I have composed, and these are majorly clogging up my trash/bin folder.

Is there any way to stop this behavior?

Thanks

Hamish · 30 Sep 2012 at 11:31

did you set your drafts folder in mail tot he Gmail drafts folder?

lamboman · 30 Sep 2012 at 19:09

As far as I know there isn't a solution to this, unfortunately. And to be honest, Mail is really poor with Gmail, and that is unlikely to change. The only "solution", as such, is to keep Drafts local, and copy any Drafts that you want online to the Gmail Drafts IMAP folder.

Honestly, even though its fate currently hangs in the balance, stick with Sparrow, or the online Gmail interface with Mountain Lion notifications (which I cannot get to work thanks to Google not fixing the link in the settings...).

hoogie · 1 Oct 2012 at 15:35

Yes I set the Gmail drafts folder to act as the Drafts mailbox in Mac Mail.

Keeping local drafts and then manually copying them over to the Gmail drafts seems a lot of effort...

Really find it hard to believe that the Mail client can't function properly with Google... I know Apple want to push iCloud but I'm not willing to get locked in to their services...

It's a real shame as I love my Mac and couldn't imagine going back to Windows now but the fact that Mail, Contacts and Calendars all don't quite function correctly is a real negative of the whole experience for me.