Tip: when Mac Mail saves copies of drafts
August 30th, 2008 by sjbExtracted from the home IT support mail archive:
ERROR MESSAGE READS:
Some actions taken while the account [an IMAP account] was offline could not be completed online.
Mail has undone actions on some messages so that you can redo the actions while online. Mail has saved other messages in mailbox “Drafts-87” in “On My Mac” so that you can complete the actions while online.Additional information: The connection to the server [IMAP server] on port [number] timed out.
The Drafts keep coming!!!!
Do the following, and only the following:
0 – Quit Mail
1 – Launch the Terminal application from within Utilities in Finder.
2 – Paste the following command into Terminal exactly as is and press return:
find Library/ -name .OfflineCache -exec rm -r {} \;
3 – Quit Terminal.
4 – Restart Mail