How To Move Emails To Drafts

Why is gmail sending my draft emails?

One relatively common problem people have with Mail is that the program will seem to collect messages in its Drafts mailbox. While not an intrusive issue, and definitely one that can be fixed by deleting the messages in this mailbox, some people have found the drafts are continually and permanently saved every time they compose new messages.The way Mail handles draft messages is that a local draft folder is created on your computer where these messages are automatically saved when you start composing. If you do not save them directly they will stay there until the message is either sent, or discarded without being saved. If you do purposefully save them, they will be removed either upon being sent, or otherwise only if you remove them manually.If you use IMAP e-mail accounts, Mail may automatically enable the option to save a copy of these draft messages in a corresponding drafts folder on the IMAP server. Any changes to the local drafts folder will be synchronized to the server so you can access your drafts from alternate e-mail clients such as Webmail, another computer, or a mobile device.This problem happens for IMAP accounts, and seems to happen when people have Mail store draft messages on the server. Any time the messages are stored on the server, they need to be synchronized with the local mailboxes, and synchronization errors or server-side modifications to the e-mail messages (antivirus scanning, marking, spam filtering, or other rules) can prevent this from happening.Disable server draft mailboxesThe solution is to only use a local copy of your drafts and other messages, and thereby prevent any errors with the server from resulting in draft message propagation. While storing draft e-mails on the server is useful if you wish to continue composing e-mails in different locations, if you do not use this feature then it will be of no use to have it enabled. To disable it, go to Mail's preferences, select your e-mail account, go to the "Mailbox Behaviors" tab, and uncheck the option to store draft messages on the server. Do this for each IMAP account you have, and then after manually deleting any previously stored drafts, you should be good to go.

Is there any possible way to recover a lost Yahoo! Mail draft?

Not that I know of.The thing to figure out is why is it lost? Was it deleted? Was it sent? Was it moved by accident? Did it just disappear from your ‘drafts’ folder?If you are worried about it happening again, you can always compose a message to yourself, that way, if you accidentally hit send, there will be one in your inbox, and one in your sent (if you have turned on the feature to keep sent messages). You can then pick up the message from either place, and forward it to the person you really wish to send it to.

How can I retrieve a discarded draft on Gmail?

Found myself in a similar situation today.Some very important info which i used to keep in draft, and i clicked 'Discard draft' by mistake, and i recognized my mistake too late (after 30 seconds slot provided by gmail as pointed by @Dick hoe)Then as usual i tried googling the web with a hope that i may find a solution, but with no success. Fortunately, i use gmail on my smart phone as well with auto refresh mode off. What i did next was :1) Switched off all the sources of data connection (Wifi/Mobile data).2) Opened the gmail app.3) Went to Drafts section, and yess.. The Draft which i discarded was present there in the application cache... :).. I copied that data and secured it...I think this may be helpful for some.