Now this was irritating. I tried to send a message from my Gmail in the native iPhone mail application. I fat-fingered the address, so it was undeliverable. Okay, I can dig it. But the problem is that I couldn’t get it out of my “Drafts” folder. Even more irritating, it showed up as 1 draft in the folder, but there was nothing in the folder, just a number (1) next to it. I rebooted…no love. I deleted the Gmail account, and recreated it…the dang thing was still there!!! Now I’m getting annoyed. But I finally figured it out:
Apparently there are databases in Safari that Gmail uses when using the web app. This was obviously corrupt. Under Settings => Safari => Databases, delete the mail.google.com one. Then for safe measure, I deleted cookies, cache and history. Then it required a reboot. Yes, I had to reboot my iPhone…again (still a lot less than I had to reboot my Windows Mobile).
Viola! No more ghost messages in Gmail draft folder!
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