- Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail Free
- Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail 2017
- Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail 2017
- Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail Email
Instead of filing messages into single folders, as Mail and most other clients do, Gmail lets you tag email messages with multiple words, or labels, just as you can with photos on Flickr. I recently began using the stock Mail app in OS X Sierra to receive and send email via my Gmail account. I never used any of Gmail's advanced features, so there wasn't much I was missing when I set up Mail for my Gmail account. On my iPhone, however, I use the Gmail app because of push notification. Jan 06, 2011 1 Quit your mail app. 2 Go to gmail account on your preferred web browser. 3 Then Settings/labels. 4 In labels look for drafts, then click on SHOW IF UNREAD (need to be in black) and then uncheck SHOW IN IMAP on the right side. After this, you can open your mac mail app and try to uncheck the store drafts messages in the server option.
I am using Apple Mail with a Gmail account on my iMac, iPhone, iPad and, sometimes, through a browser.
When replying to an email message, Apple Mail stores multiple (sometimes 100's) of versions of the draft email and *DOES NOT DELETE THEM* when the message is sent. Apple mail is configured to keep drafts on the server, which is what I want to happen, so that I can sometimes finish them on other devices. This behaviour is NOT present when using any other device, so the bug is specific to Apple Mail on Mac, (not iPhone or iPad).
I know this issue has been raised before, but it has incorrectly been marked as solved, so I am raising it again in the hope that it can really be solved this time. (For background, the action previously incorrectly adopted as a solution is to configure Apple Mail to not store drafts on the server. This does not solve the problem as, although you don't then get multiple drafts, on your other devices you don't get a draft at all! So, that's not a server-based email system.)
Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail Free
This behaviour is present regardless of the mail account type used - using the recommended 'Google' account type or using a general IMAP account to connect to the Gmail service each exhibit the same bug.
This bug has been present for a number of years and OS X versions. It is about time it was addressed. If anyone has a fix for this please respond here. I ask politely that this thread is not polluted with 'solutions' of 'don't store drafts on the server', since that alternate behaviour is well documented and discussed elsewhere on this forum.
Thanks
~Joe
iMac - Sierra / Apple Mail / Gmail account
iMac, iOS 11.2.1
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Drafts represent unsent messages with the
DRAFT
system label applied.The message contained within the draft cannot be edited once created, but itcan be replaced. In this sense, thedraft resource is simply a containerthat provides a stable ID because the underlying message IDs change every timethe message is replaced.Message resources inside a drafthave similar behavior to other messages except for the following differences:
- Draft messages cannot have any label other than the
DRAFT
system label. - When the draft is sent, the draft is automatically deleted and a new messagewith an updated ID is created with the
SENT
system label. This message isreturned in thedrafts.send
response.
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Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail 2017
Creating draft messages
Your application can create drafts using thedrafts.create method. Thegeneral process is to:
- Create a MIME message that complies withRFC 2822.
- Convert the message to a base64url encoded string.
- Create a draft, setting thevalue of the
drafts.message.raw
field to the encoded string.
The following code examples demonstrate the process.
Java
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Creating an email message can be greatly simplified with the
MimeMessage
class in the javax.mail.internet
package. The following example shows howto create the email message, including the headers(download the example):The next step is to encode the
MimeMessage
, instantiate a Message
object, and set the base64url encoded message string as the value of theraw
property.Once you have a created a
Message
, you can create a Draft
object andpass it to the drafts.create
method.Python
The following code sample demonstrates creating a MIME message, encoding toa base64url string, and assigning it to the
raw
field of the Message
resource (download example):Once you have created a
Message
object, you can pass it to thedrafts.create
method tocreate a Draft
object.Updating drafts
Similarly to creating a draft, to update a draft you must supply a
Draft
resource in the body of your request with the draft.message.raw
fieldset to a base64url encoded string containing the MIME message. Becausemessages cannot be updated, the message contained in the draft is destroyedand replaced by the new MIME message supplied in the update request.You can retrieve the current MIME message contained in the draft by calling
drafts.get
with the parameterformat=raw
.For more information, see
drafts.update
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Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail 2017
Sending drafts
Macos Email Application Creating Multiple Drafts For Gmail Email
When sending a draft, you can choose to send the message as-is or as with anupdated message. If you are updating the draft content with a new message,supply a
Draft
resource in the body of thedrafts.send
request; set thedraft.id
of the draft to be sent; and set the draft.message.raw
field to thenew MIME message encoded as a base64url encoded string. For moreinformation, see drafts.send
.