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
    2025-02-20T20:49:49+00:00

    I gave up and went back to the old Outlook mail.

    Microsoft and any of the other so called techs were of not help.

    I got frustrated and went back to the old Outlook.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-29T12:48:35+00:00

    I gave up and went back to the old MS Email.

    MS folks don't seem interested and the recommended fixes do not work.

    I'm in the classic/old :( still doing this dumb forever copy in draft until I delete it even after I send the message.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-22T20:02:32+00:00

    I too was having this issue. I have an M365 account and use the Outlook client installed app on my computer. My settings for "undo send" were set to 0 because I didn't want to do that. Messages sent showed in my sent folder and email string but the draft 'copy' stayed in my draft folder indefinitely until I manually deleted it. I set my undo setting to 5 seconds which resolved the issue. It is now working as expected (for enabling the undo option) but I would like to have the option to turn that feature off entirely.

    I gave up and went back to the classic Outlook.

    MS and any other help links on the internet were not helpful and did not address the problem with any solutions.

    FK

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T12:35:22+00:00

    I did not fix it and could not find any MS help, so I went back to the "old" version of Outlook.

    Ferd

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T00:52:38+00:00

    Angelina, I am having similar problem with sending emails. I have just started to use the OUTLOOK (New) APP on my PC. After I SEND an email it goes to the DRAFT section where it stays. Sometimes it will then disappear - a check of my SENT items shows it has now been sent - however it can stay in the DRAFT section for a day or more. At the moment I have an email sitting in the DRAFT section and it will not go. I have been through SETTINGS, and as you mentioned above, there is no facility to alter this within the APP SETTINGS for PC.

    If I were to access my account through the browser, and change the setting there, will this carry through to the APP on my PC?

    Thanks

    Graham

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