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I'm not sure how long this has been happening, but does anyone know how to stop this from happening? I end up double checking my actual Sent folder to be sure my new/response emails did get sent, and not hung up in Draft folder.
Thanks!
Patricia
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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This happens after I send the email. It's there forever, until I verify the message was really sent and manually delete the copy from the draft file. I've returned to the Windows based outlook program.
I'm using the 'old' version of Outlook 365 and it's doing this, too. (I refuse to consider the new Outlook until they allow for manual folder organization and add grey as an option - seems petty, but my eyeballs don't think so!) Did you find a solution?
I see that the problem of having emails in both the sent and the draft folders at the same time has been going on for awhile, but I have just started to notice this happening to me in the past few weeks. Yes, I have tried the solutions that were given in previous posts here. Just to be clear, I compose and send an email, and then later I am looking at my drafts and the email shows as not sent and says in a message at the top that there was a problem. However, the email has been sent, is in my sent folder, and sometimes I have even received a reply. The email stays in drafts until I delete it. This is so confusing as I am never sure if my emails actually were sent or not, and it doesn't even happen every time. Please fix!
Having the same issue but on my phone on Outlook app. And one up here...I can delete the draft, close the app, open it back up and the email has returned to the draft folder. As I cant seem to find the option to turn off anything related to the send/draft folders. How do you fix it on android phones.
I have given up MS Support has not been helpful and other online techs are not helpful.
I went back to the original version of Outlook email.