Why are all my "sent" emails ending up in Draft Folder?

Anonymous
2024-03-07T20:07:21+00:00

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T20:37:26+00:00

    Does this happen before or after you click the Send button? If it happens afterward, does the email only stay in your Drafts folder for a few seconds and then automatically sends, or does it just stay there until you do something with it?

    this happens when I try to send the email and it just sits there it is never sent

    Trick question. It starts as a draft while making the email and then stays there forever even after sent. I have to manually delete it from existence to have it disappear.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T20:29:25+00:00

    Does this happen before or after you click the Send button? If it happens afterward, does the email only stay in your Drafts folder for a few seconds and then automatically sends, or does it just stay there until you do something with it?

    this happens when I try to send the email and it just sits there it is never sent

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-29T10:35:56+00:00

    Hi. Has this issue been sorted by Microsoft as yet? It is driving me MAD wondering why no one is responding to me - its because they haven't received my email!

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T11:41:29+00:00

    Hi Patricia

    How did you go fixing your problem ?

    We are having the same 🥴

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-15T15:40:28+00:00

    Same issue. I went ahead and changed the "auto" save emails to 15 minutes now to see if I can work around it saving forever in the draft since now it won't get a chance to... but still annoying. Is Microsoft working on a fix?

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