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The prompt “Message has not been sent. Do you want to save the message in the Drafts folder?” stopped working after upgrade

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F_Donald replied
F_Donald
F_Donald

Hello,

Whenever I hit reply the compose window opens and when I close the window (i.e., with or without typing text), I receive the prompt: “Message has not been sent. Do you want to save the message in the Drafts folder?”

The prompt allows me to click “yes” and very quickly save email that require a response to my drafts folder.

However, I stopped receiving the prompt after upgrading to Thunderbird 45.8.0 or 52.1.1 and I cannot identify how to turn in back on, or if the feature is available in the new versions.

If I add text or a space to the text field I do receive the prompt, but this is far less efficient when sorting through hundreds of email; as compared to a prompt and click method without the need to modify the text field. This feature really save me a lot of time.

Help re-enabling the prompt will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you…

Hello, Whenever I hit reply the compose window opens and when I close the window (i.e., with or without typing text), I receive the prompt: “Message has not been sent. Do you want to save the message in the Drafts folder?” The prompt allows me to click “yes” and very quickly save email that require a response to my drafts folder. However, I stopped receiving the prompt after upgrading to Thunderbird 45.8.0 or 52.1.1 and I cannot identify how to turn in back on, or if the feature is available in the new versions. If I add text or a space to the text field I do receive the prompt, but this is far less efficient when sorting through hundreds of email; as compared to a prompt and click method without the need to modify the text field. This feature really save me a lot of time. Help re-enabling the prompt will be greatly appreciated. Thank you…

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F_Donald
F_Donald Question owner

You are fully accurate in your interpretation of my problem; thank you for the clarity. I would like to have the reply saved to my drafts folder as a reminder to respond at a later time via a single click. I was hoping that there may be a config file edit to accomplish this.

Dragging email to a “Requires Response” folder or tagging them may be a very good alternative provided that I can become efficient at dragging them back or untagging them after I reply.

Thank you for your recommendations and for taking the time to respond to my post.