Working on an email? Unfinished emails, called drafts, are automatically saved in Windows Mail. How do you finish them?
Windows Mail
Mail is Windows’ e-mail program. It’s standard on computers with Windows 10. Not using Mail yet? Read how to start the program in the article Mail in Windows 10. Or learn how to use the program in the Email with Mail course.
Save mail as draft
Mail automatically saves draft messages when you exit the message.
- click on new e-mail to create an email.
- After ‘To’, enter the recipient’s email address.
- Under ‘Subject’, type what the email is about.
- Enter your email in the text field below.
- Save the text for a later moment? Just get out of the mail. For example, click on an incoming email.
Edit drafts
So Mail automatically saves draft messages when you exit the message. Find them in the ‘Drafts’ folder.
- If multiple e-mail addresses are linked to Mail: click on the correct e-mail address on the left under ‘Accounts’.
- click on folders > Concepts.
- For an unsent e-mail ‘[Concept]’. Click on the draft you want to open.
- Finish the email as usual.
Delete draft mail
Clean up the Drafts folder by discarding unnecessary messages.
- click on folders > Concepts.
- For an unsent e-mail ‘[Concept]’. Click on the draft you want to delete.
- Click on the top right remove > remove.
Delete all drafts
Delete all drafts at once?
- click on folders > Concepts.
- Click on the ‘Activate selection mode’ icon behind the search bar
. - Click on the square for ‘Concepts’.
- A blue checkmark will appear in this and all drafts are selected. Above ‘Drafts’, click the trash can icon.