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.Mac Webmail Frustration!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Not Quite Phoenix
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For about the fifth time since I've been using it, I just finished a long e-mail using .Mac webmail, hit Send... Only for it not to go through. Hitting the Back button returns you to a blank draft. Dammit! I usually remember, since being burned before, to copy all my text, so it's on my clipboard should this happen. When in a hurry, however, I forget... And it's only then that I get burned.
This never happens with Excite or Yahoo! mail. Of course, I don't use those all that often anymore... But I certainly don't remember it being a problem. Ugh!   
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Jalen's dad. Carrie's husband. partisan. Bleu blanc et rouge.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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You should never trust an email client, or any other piece of software for that matter, to preserve your work that hasn't been saved. Does .Mac Webmail have Save As Draft yet? Maybe I should go check. In any case, we're talking about an interface to software through a web browser. Your data is not secure until it is on disk.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2000
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You're right, of course. I was just venting frustration there. Like I said, I do usually copy my text just in case something funky happens. Murphy's Law kicks in though and the times I don't are when I get burned.
In this case, I was jotting a quick review of a new TV show to a friend (I know, important stuff). Trying to recreate my off-the-cuff remarks proved futile though. Oh well.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Hey, it's totally understood, Digital. It occurred to me that I was sounding perhaps a bit holier than thou in my previous reply. I've had the exact same thing happen to me, and I'm sure most everyone else has as well. It usually happens to me in web forums, though.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: CO
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As soon as I create a new mail item I Command-S. Copy is then saved in "Drafts" folder (you'll see the number in parentheses after "Drafts" augmented by one. Has never failed me.
(learned that as a life-saving reflex in my beginning web days in AOHell)
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Edinburgh, UK
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Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
As soon as I create a new mail item I Command-S. Copy is then saved in "Drafts" folder (you'll see the number in parentheses after "Drafts" augmented by one. Has never failed me.
(learned that as a life-saving reflex in my beginning web days in AOHell)
Ah right. I didn't know you could do Command-S in .Mac webmail. Must remember that one...
...or you could READ the original post!
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