I don’t have two new-message windows pop open, but after I’ve sent my message (created by dropping attachment into dock icon) I notice there’s still one sitting in my drafts folder. What strange about it is that if I’ve changed the subject line, then there are two messages in the drafts folder – one with the old subject line, one with the new. I just delete them and they go away.

Noticed that behavior last night at home connecting to work’s IMAP server but not today from work. My home and work use different ISPs (one cable, one DSL) so I’m not sure if that’s a factor.

On the plus side they fixed the bug where, if you grabbed an attachment from a windows SMB share and dragged it directly to the dock icon and then try to send the message, you would get an error saying that the message couldn’t be sent using the selected server. I would have to drag it to my desktop and then to the dock icon.

I frequently use the resent to send a slightly different version of an email to another person.

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This is a follow up to Bug ID# 5630858. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 5243377.
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One other way to avoid this while it’s being fixed is to make the new mail first and then drag.

I will file an apple bug as well and link to this post and the forum.

I’ve sent massive feedback to Apple, including samples of my mails for downloading, which I include here. (If the blog admin thinks this to be unnecessary, please feel free to edit my comment accordingly.)

Hello,

recently, I sent feedback about how Mail (the app) creates two mails (“mail A” and “mail B”) instead of just one when a file (“file A”) is dragged onto the Mail Icon in the Dock. Mail B is created first, Mail A above it, Mail A then contains the file “A”, (hence I chose to name this one “A”.)

Now, I’ve got additional feedback on that subject: The second mail form (“B”, the one created first) is unusable. In my case I tried to send a different file, “file B”, to a different address by dragging file “B” onto mail “B”. Mail “A” with file “A” has not been sent at the time. After writing and formatting Mail “B”, I sent both (actually, I sent 6 mails, A&B, as well as C&D plus two “normal” ones, sending them all off in rather quick succession) via my .Mac account.

Since I was also on the list of addressees, I expected all those mails to show up in my inbox. Instead, only one of them arrived (I don’t remember if that was A or B, to be honest), but it arrived twice. And, (for the sake of explanation, let’s pretend that Mail “B” came back), it had Mail “A”‘s subject line, while mail “A” never seemed to exist. This happened with mail C and D respectively, while one of the other two mails got lost completely, while the other one arrived carrying the lost one’s file, the one I sent it off with was missing. The mails are actually showing up wrong in my Sent folder, as if I sent them away like that.

I know this is a bit complicated by now, that’s why I’m uploading the mails for you in a zip file which I will remove from the server after Dec. 20, 2007. You can see the differing “sent” dates in those files. Here’s the address:

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And here’s more explanation:

Mail 1a: Was sent 21:55:49, should have been sent only once. Is exact twin of Mail 1b, carries the according subject line and text.

Mail 1b: Was sent 21:55:53, is exact twin of Mail 1a, carries the according subject line and text. (but the mail should have been sent only once at all).

Mail 2: Contains wrong picture file. Was sent off with a blurred image of my cousin, a girl in a red snowboard jacket. The (lost) Mail which contained this picture here (some installation valves for just 19,99!) was sent off to —@—, but never arrived. If you look into my .Mac account’s log files, you’ll find that same picture in some other mail sent in a second try at 22:10:44.

Mail 3a: Was sent 21:55:55, is exact twin of Mail 3b, carries the wrong subject line. Subject line should have been something containing “Toni” and “Lotto” or “Lottozahlen” or “Jackpot”, if I remember correctly.

Mail 3b: Was sent 21:55:56, is exact twin of Mail 3a, carries the wrong subject line as well. Subject line should have been something containing “Toni” and “Lotto” or “Lottozahlen” or “Jackpot”, if I remember correctly. (but the mail should have been sent only once at all).

Completely missing, and therefore neither in my “Sent” box nor in the Zip file I provided, are the following mails:

- Subject “Weihnachten naht” (as in 3a and b), containing two pictures of a christmas market.

- Subject “Das wäre was für Euer Entlüftungsproblem” (or something like it), containing the picture mentioned above with the 5 valves in a yellow paper and clear plastic container.

Phew, I hope you can make something out of all of this. I’d hate to have typed that much feedback just for the dustbin…

Best wishes from Germany,

Julian