Option to save drafts manualy
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Description
Feature Request
Have a setting to allow users to chose between automatic and manual save of drafts.
When manual save is selected, a "Save draft" button would be added to the NewMessage components.
Rationale
Currently, Mail saves a draft every few keystrokes. This is nice but can sometime be problematic: For example, I've just had the issue where I've lost the whole content of my draft after a bad manipulation: I somehow navigated away from my draft to a new, empty, draft. I then pressed the back button of my browser only to find out that the content of my draft had been deleted, probably replaced by the (empty) content of the empty draft where I'd mistakenly navigated away.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the NewMessage components and the current draft autosave path, then inspect how user settings are represented. The work is done when users can choose automatic or manual draft saving, manual mode exposes a Save draft button, and automatic saving remains available.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100