The purpose of it is to give you a chance to edit it or delete it before it actually goes to the recipient. But it should only show up in the Drafts folder first and then only in the Sent folder, so if you're seeing a copy in both folders at the same time and it stays in the Drafts folder, then it's probably not because of that setting. More @Wikipedia
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