In my last post I wrote about a horrifying experience I had with Gmail, Mail.app(Leopard) and IMAP. As it turns out, if you have your mail client set up to store drafts on the Gmail server, it will save each copy as a new “sent” message. For Apple’s Mail.app, hit Command , to get to your preferences, click the IMAP account, and make sure this box is unticked:

I thought about deleting the other post, but I figure someone else is bound to get the same scare at some point, so I’m just going to update it and link it to here. Thanks goes out to Coda Hale for informing me of this odd behavior.