Draft message vanishes

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FrankSMS
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Draft message vanishes

Post by FrankSMS »

So I saved a message to Drafts, then, a few minutes later noticed its missing. What could have caused this? I didn't delete anything.
In Account Settings I tried saving Sent messages in both Sent Folder on that account as well as Other: Sent on that account.
Neither is saved to the Sent folder. I'm pretty sure this worked fine before.
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tanstaafl
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Re: Draft message vanishes

Post by tanstaafl »

Perhaps you had accidentally selected a different account in the folder pane before you started composing a message. If that happened the draft is saved in a different drafts folder.

Does the sent folder specified in copies and folders actually exist?

I'm starting to wonder if your local directory setting for the account (its specified at the bottom of the accounts server settings pane) changed due to some problem. If that happens it automatically creates a new empty version of any special folders such as the inbox, sent and drafts folder. You wouldn't have any more any (non-special) folders you manually created. See if you're missing old messages in your inbox etc.
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