292225 - Drafts should not ever be lost due to IMAP/connection failure

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Galen Swint]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

It seems that it is easy to lose drafts if there is some failure in IMAP or
connection when saving them. Also, unexpected shutdowns can cause lost drafts.
Thunderbird should by default save drafts to local storage as they are typed -
perhaps the local drafts folder.

I suspect the real problem I encountered one night was a server bug, but I think
that having Thunderbird be more resilient to such failures is important, too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Force shutdown while editing a draft
-or-
1. Also happens occasionally when unknown server errors cause draft to be
transferred, but then the server loses it.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 16360 should take care of it... 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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