Mac Mail draft not deleting / auto reply blank

[bcurtis91]

Since I upgraded to Leopard I cannot delete drafts in mac mail (3.1). If I click on them and delete from the drafts folder they appear to go away but the number on the folder never changes and when I leave the folder and come back to it they are still there. I have selected "rebuild" with no change. I finally sent them to myself to get them out of the draft folder but any new draft that is created can not be deleted. Any ideas?

Also, I have an auto reply set up for emails received to a specific account (i have multiple email accounts setup) which used to work fine, now it still replies but the "reply text" is blank in the sent message. I have confirmed that the reply is actually there in "rules" I have deleted the reply and created a new one, all with the same results. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions??

Thanks in advance.

Betsy

 

[yojitani]

Since I upgraded to Leopard I cannot delete drafts in mac mail (3.1). If I click on them and delete from the drafts folder they appear to go away but the number on the folder never changes and when I leave the folder and come back to it they are still there. I have selected "rebuild" with no change. I finally sent them to myself to get them out of the draft folder but any new draft that is created can not be deleted. Any ideas?

Also, I have an auto reply set up for emails received to a specific account (i have multiple email accounts setup) which used to work fine, now it still replies but the "reply text" is blank in the sent message. I have confirmed that the reply is actually there in "rules" I have deleted the reply and created a new one, all with the same results. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions??

Thanks in advance.

Betsy

Was having the same problem. Found this on macosx.com:
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/296101-apple-mail-won-t-delete-draft.html

we can try one of two things here. first the easy way... try rebuilding your mailbox by selecting the mailbox on the left and then rebuild from the mailbox menu.

if that doesn't work, you can always try:
/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum

but make sure you have a backup of your mail folder first. you can drag it out to the root level of the hard drive or set it on the desktop and it should make a copy of it if you hold the option key down while dragging.

The terminal command worked for me.