disappearing Draft icon - mac mail

[4now]

when my draft folder is empty the icon disappears from the sidebar.

so if I take a sent mail and right click to move to 'draft folder' - it has moved there
but cannot be accessed since the icon is missing.

I always need to create a new draft in the compose window - before the icon will reappear on the sidebar.

Is there a solution?

thanks

 

[jonathanInMI]

same problem - disappearing DRAFTS folder in MAIL

I have exactly the same problem. There must be some way to get the DRAFTS icon back - short of reinstalling mail...

-jon

 

[4now]

No draft
No draft Icon

That's just the way it is

If you've just sent off your latest draft
visit the 'sent' folder
select the email
right click and select ' redirect '
then ' save as draft '

folder reappears with the draft inside

 

[jonathanInMI]

not exactly....

Thanks for your response and esp for the fix.

But I was not clear enough in describing the situation. My "draft" box is in an imap account.

On MAC_1 (a MacBookPro) I deleted all the drafts, and the draft icon disappeared. Then I created several new "drafts" and on MAC_1 the draft icon did not come back.

BUT... on MAC_2 (an iMAC) when I started it up, the draft icon was still there and I saw the drafts I had created on MAC_1.

So the situation is not really that "No draft => No draft icon"

Rather its "Delete the last draft on a given computer => not getting the draft folder back even when you create a new draft"


Your fix to redirect a sent message, then save as draft seems to always work for me.

Again - thanks very much!

Best,
---jon---

 

[4now]

glad it helped with your situation