I Lost A Very Important Composed Email In Web Mail

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I created a very lenghy email in a web email using internet explorer 6.0.
When I clicked on "SEND" the page refreshed and my very long email was gone
and I was booted back to a login screen. Is there any way to retrieve my
composed message. It is very important for work. I tried looking at cookies
to no avail, I looked at temporary files to no avail. I am desperate. My
job depends on this email. I dont use web mail usually but I had no other
alternative. Was my composed web mail saved somehow when the page refreshed
and timed out? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME as I may be out of a job.
Thank you in advance for your reply.
 
TaoJones said:
I created a very lenghy email in a web email using internet explorer
6.0.
When I clicked on "SEND" the page refreshed and my very long email
was gone
and I was booted back to a login screen. Is there any way to
retrieve my
composed message. It is very important for work. I tried looking
at cookies
to no avail, I looked at temporary files to no avail. I am
desperate. My
job depends on this email. I dont use web mail usually but I had no
other
alternative. Was my composed web mail saved somehow when the page
refreshed
and timed out? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME as I may be out
of a job.
Thank you in advance for your reply.
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When you take a long time composing a new email, the webmail service
may timeout your session due to lack of activity. You typing into a
local browser window tells nothing to the server that YOU are busy.
The server only knows that IT is not busy handling your mail so it
times out.

You might have an option to change how long the server waits before
timing out an idle session. You'll have to go check the options in
your unnamed webmail service to see if such an option exists.

Before clicking Submit or Okay on a web form (which navigates away
from that web form), you had better get used to copying the fields in
the web form so you won't lose them. Beside the session timeout
problem, it is possible the server goes down, your network goes down,
your ISP goes down, or other networking, server, or client problems
that result in losing the data in a web form. However, because many
web forms have multiple and separate input fields, and because Windows
only provides for 1 clip in its clipboard, you can only save one of
the input fields in the web form. You'll need a better clipboard
manager, like ClipMagic or ClipMate, to copy all the input fields
before submitting the web form so you can recover that data in case
that data gets lost.
 
VanguardLH said:
When you take a long time composing a new email, the webmail service may timeout your session due
to lack of activity. You typing into a local browser window tells nothing to the server that YOU
are busy. The server only knows that IT is not busy handling your mail so it times out.

You might have an option to change how long the server waits before timing out an idle session.
You'll have to go check the options in your unnamed webmail service to see if such an option
exists.

Before clicking Submit or Okay on a web form (which navigates away from that web form), you had
better get used to copying the fields in the web form so you won't lose them. Beside the session
timeout problem, it is possible the server goes down, your network goes down, your ISP goes down,
or other networking, server, or client problems that result in losing the data in a web form.
However, because many web forms have multiple and separate input fields, and because Windows only
provides for 1 clip in its clipboard, you can only save one of the input fields in the web form.
You'll need a better clipboard manager, like ClipMagic or ClipMate, to copy all the input fields
before submitting the web form so you can recover that data in case that data gets lost.
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Another suggestion. Type your message in your word processor, then copy and paste it into the mail
program.
You can then check spelling and grammar and takes only a few seconds to send. Plus you will have a
copy.
 
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