Drafts
Saved when you pause.
Start a message and walk away. Three seconds after your last keystroke it is saved, and Drafts hands back the recipients, the subject, the body and the From address.
In short
What is an email draft?
A draft is a message you have begun and not sent, kept so a closed laptop does not cost you the text. Mailboxes differ in when that copy is written and how much of it comes back.
3sec
between your last keystroke and the save
1min
the longest a failed save waits to retry
3
failures in a row before you are told
How it works
Three seconds after you stop
The timer restarts on every keystroke, so the save lands on a pause. A recipient, a subject or a line of body is enough to start it.
Reopened the way you left it
Recipients, subject, body and the From address come back. If this workspace can no longer send as that address, the composer picks the one this workspace last sent from.
Attachments are the one gap
A draft keeps each file's name, type and size but not the file, so a reopened draft comes back without them. Attach them again before you send.
What you get
In the product today
One draft, overwritten
Each save replaces the last, never a row per keystroke.
Untouched means unsaved
Open the composer and close it again, and nothing is written.
Bin it from the list
Hover a row in Drafts and its bin button deletes it.
Good practice
Getting the most out of it
- 01
Attach last
Files are not kept in a draft, so add them just before you send.
- 02
Type the subject early
A draft saved without one is listed as (no subject), which is hard to pick out later.
- 03
Act on the warning
If the composer says drafts are not saving, send now or copy the text somewhere safe.
Questions
Asked often
Keep going
Works well with
Pick them with the paperclip or paste them in. A pasted image lands in the body rather than the file list, and a file dragged onto the composer is not attached at all. In a mailbox hosted on Nextmail, incoming files sit in object storage, one object each, and a file is fetched only when you open or download it.
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