Disable autosave when editing draft messages?

[thecastle]

I've not been able to find a workaround to Pocomail destroying my draft messages while I am editing them by overwriting them before I've decided I really needed to close without saving.

This is as close as I've got to a make-or-break situation since "upgrading" from Courier. I absolutely need to be able to close a draft message without saving the changes since opening it.

I'm really hoping the workaround isn't to copy everything to a text editor and do my editing outside of Pocomail.

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

[Eric]

Hi thecastle & welcome to Poco Forums,

I've not been able to find a workaround to Pocomail destroying my draft messages while I am editing them by overwriting them before I've decided I really needed to close without saving.

Unfortunately you can't close your message without saving the changes.
Answering No will destroy the message.
It already happened to me once, so now I'm more prudent.

This is as close as I've got to a make-or-break situation since "upgrading" from Courier. I absolutely need to be able to close a draft message without saving the changes since opening it.

I'm really hoping the workaround isn't to copy everything to a text editor and do my editing outside of Pocomail.

Another work-a-round would be to copy your original Draft message to another folder prior to opening it from within the Draft's folder.
Else I don't see another way at present, unless you want to do the editing outside of Poco.

Hope that helps anyway.

[thecastle]

Unfortunately you can't close your message without saving the changes.
Answering No will destroy the message.

I'd not even thought about it that far. I was thinking "If I could just disable autosave, I can then decide whether or not to save the message when I close it." If I can't even do that, it's quite pitiful.

Thanks for the "copy to" idea, though. The draft message can be copied to the draft folder itself (it doesn't show up until you go to another folder and back) so I can copy a draft message, edit it, and then delete the one I don't want later. Not neat, but way easier than what I was doing. I just have to remember to do that extra step every time.

That and make additional copies each time I wish to save ongoing changes. Aargh.

[Eric]

I'd not even thought about it that far. I was thinking "If I could just disable autosave, I can then decide whether or not to save the message when I close it." If I can't even do that, it's quite pitiful.

AFAIK it's hardcoded, so no way to change that behaviour.

Thanks for the "copy to" idea, though.

You're welcome thecastle.
It's not exactly what you were looking for, but it's better then nothing at all.

Maybe the next major version will allow you to do just that, although no info yet on what we'll get.
A new engine has been announced, but that's all I know about it