Draft Saved in Inbox

[Alastair]

Dear All,

I am using Outlook 8.5.5603.0 but get an error that is
reported in Outlook 97. Sometimes when I save a file prior
to sending it, it gets saved in the DRAFT folder and on
rare ocassions it gets saved to the Inbox. The only common
thing I can see is that the items saved in the Inbox have
a 'To' name included and always have an attachment, but
not all emails of this nature get saved in the Inbox
folder. I am confused! Can someone help me?

The Outlook options are set to save in DRAFT.

Alastair

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This is perfectly normal behavior. If you create a message with the File |
Send To | Mail Recipient command in Word or by right-clicking a file and
choosing Send To | Email, then save that message, that draft will save in
the Inbox. Drafts that you create wholly within Outlook, will save in
Drafts. It's a little quirk related to the Simple MAPI technique used to
create the messages with Send To: It doesn't know about the Drafts folder.

 

[Alastair MacFarlane]

Sue,

Thanks for the clarification.

Alastair

-----Original Message-----
This is perfectly normal behavior. If you create a message with the File |
Send To | Mail Recipient command in Word or by right- clicking a file and
choosing Send To | Email, then save that message, that draft will save in
the Inbox. Drafts that you create wholly within Outlook, will save in
Drafts. It's a little quirk related to the Simple MAPI technique used to
create the messages with Send To: It doesn't know about the Drafts folder.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers






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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

Dear All,

I am using Outlook 8.5.5603.0 but get an error that is reported in
Outlook 97. Sometimes when I save a file prior to sending it, it gets
saved in the DRAFT folder and on rare ocassions it gets saved to the
Inbox. The only common thing I can see is that the items saved in the
Inbox have a 'To' name included and always have an attachment, but not
all emails of this nature get saved in the Inbox folder. I am confused!
Can someone help me?

The Outlook options are set to save in DRAFT.

If you initiate the message from one of the other office applications,
such as Word or Excel, but way of clicking File | Send To | Mail Recipient...
then if you save the message before sending it the message will be saved
in the Inbix instead of Drafts.