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    Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 11:33
How many of you have composed a carefully-worded email, only to accidentally press backspace, or click on an icon to look something up. All your text is gone!

Several other websites have implemented an "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" feature, which stops this from happening.

In the meantime, it's possible to defend against the possibility, by either:
  1. write their text in a separate editor, then paste it into the Compose page for formatting and -sending, or
  2. frequently copy their message to the clipboard, so that the text is somewhere.
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Points: 5 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 11:58
Devs: Yes, yes, yes!  Please add above feature.
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Points: 1857 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 13:03
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Points: 165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 13:48
Originally posted by Albatross Albatross wrote:

How many of you have composed a carefully-worded email, only to accidentally press backspace, or click on an icon to look something up. All your text is gone!
*Raises hand

Oh my!
The pain, the rage,  the frustration at my own stupid carelessness, but in truth it is only too easy to loose a carefully written, well edited message... Cry

Yes, please, add such a feature! Please!
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Points: 1118 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 14:33
An alternative solution (for devs) would be to use 'HTML5' local storage for encrypted auto-save, which is checked when the Compose Mail panel is loaded.
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Points: 213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 19:48
totaly agree :D
many times i have to open a second tab with illy just cause i have to check something and can't leave the message without losing it...
please save the messsage
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Points: 210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Sep 2012 at 20:22
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