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Save as draft

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Helmut Scherer
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With Thunderbird 78.3.3 (64-BIT) I get the error message : "Save as draft failed. Your message could not be saved as draft. Send message failed."

With Thunderbird 78.3.3 (64-BIT) I get the error message : "Save as draft failed. Your message could not be saved as draft. Send message failed."
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Stans
Stans
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Sent messages should not be getting saved as drafts. Open Account Settings, Copies & Folders. What are the current settings for Sent messages and drafts? Your non-English screenshot won't help (me) much here, unfortunately.

Helmut Scherer
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I have the default settings.

christ1
christ1
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Why saving the draft fails, I don't know. This may be a temporary problem with the email provider's IMAP server. Unless there's a compelling reason to save drafts in the Drafts folder on the server, I'd rather use the Drafts folder of the Local Folders account.