91517 - When Mozilla crashes while composing a message, message is lost.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16360

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Philip Andrew]

If, while the user is in the middle of composing a message, Mozilla crashes,
said message is completely lost (or at least, I couldn't find any place where a
draft gets saved).

This has bit me a couple times with majorly-long messages.  I realize that I
should've remembered to "Save", so that a copy would be in my "Drafts" folder;
but the bottom line is I didn't.  And Mozilla is unstable enough that it still
hangs on me every day or two.

Other editors, like Xemacs, Vi, or Word, do auto-checkpointing, and after a
crash you can recover a very up-to-date version of what you were working on
before the crash (even if you didn't have the foresight to "Save" right before
the crash).

I judge that there is a worry about security, e.g. having an e-mail saved in a
file is potentially a liability because it is a record that someone else might
be able to read or otherwise exploit.  However, mail messages are saved to files
all the time when reading (/tmp/nsmail-*, /tmp/nscopy-*), and that doesn't seem
to bother anyone.

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

Reporter,
Please include which build id you are using?  Do you want this bug to be a 
request for an enhancement to auto save the message when being composed or this 
bug is regarding the crash you are seeing while composing?

Comment 2

[Philip Andrew]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062823

This is *not* a report of the crash, but rather a request for auto-save
during Compose.

However, it *is* a duplicate of 16360.  I've already transferred some comments
to 16360 and added myself to the 'CC' list.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16360 ***

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.