Drafts : a bug or not a bug ?

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pete of ebor
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Drafts : a bug or not a bug ?

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Just noticed something a a bit unusual in how TB handles Drafts. I have TB set to autosave compositions every 5 mins - That is the default setting. After 5 mins, the composition is saved as a draft in the drafts folder. I've just composed a mail, but because I repeatedly got interrupted I now have four drafts of it in the Drafts folder. I sent the mail , but the drafts have remained. As a long time user of TB, I always thought that drafts were automatically deleted once the mail was sent. Is this a bug, a new setting or just something I have never noticed before? It's obviously not a major problem though..

TB 68.2.2 (32bit) on Linux Mint 19.3 (on a 15 year old Dell laptop rescued from a friend's uncle who was going to bin it)
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Re: Drafts : a bug or not a bug ?

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Right click on the name of the Drafts folder in the left hand pane of Thunderbird's main window and select "Compact" from the context menu that appears.
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