Closed
Bug 156779
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
[RFE] Autosave in mail compose editor
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: ian, Assigned: bugzilla)
Details
(Whiteboard: [EDITORBASE])
STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use the mail compose editor. 2. Crash. 3. Rewrite your mail. ACTUAL RESULTS Annoyed user. EXPECTED RESULTS No crash (but that's another bug). If there _is_ a crash, then the text should be saved somewhere. SUGGESTED REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT It would be really nice if the editor could autosave the composer editor's contents every line or two. That way, while we wait for our crashes to be fixed, we at least don't have to waste our time with lost e-mails. I don't normally request workarounds, but these crashes show little sign of being fixed, since we've been dealing with them for years now, so maybe in this case a workaround would be good... autosave is probably not a bad idea anyway. Where the autosave file should go is unclear -- but I think in the profile directory would be best, as that will already be as secure as the user's most private Mozilla-related data. The files should be uniquely named so as to avoid clashes when there are multiple compose windows open. If Mail is restarted while there are existing autosave files, it should reopen composer windows on them.
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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I just lost an e-mail because of a crash in a totally unrelated part of Mozilla. (The Flash plug-in running in a Browser window.) That's an argument for splitting Mozilla into many processes more than for autosave, but in the meantime, it's still an argument for autosave.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Agreed! Good idea, but isn't this a duplicate of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16360 ? Anyway, this should also apply to NEWS post compose and not just mail. For me it crashes sometimes with the spell checker or because I sign (by regular certificates or enigmail-GPG/PGP) messages by default.
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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Partly because of the lack of this feature, I've now gone back to using Pine.
Comment 4•22 years ago
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duplicate of bug 16360 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16360 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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