questmail autosave feature

[artemis]

I searched for "questmail"+"autosave" and didn't come up with any messages.

One of my clients asked for an autosave feature. I know questmail is intended as a supplementary email platform, but they travel enough that they like using it as their primary. However, occasionally things happen while they're in the middle of an email and they will have forgotten to save a draft copy so they lose the entire message.

Is there a way to configure autosaving periodically? (I don't see one)

Is adding an autosave feature to questmail on your wish list? If not, can you put it on your wishlist?? :):)

thanks, Diane

[Binky]

You client can access his/her FQ email account from Gmail, for both sending and receiving. Gmail autosaves.

[Jeff]

The ability of gmail to send / recieve from up to 5 external mail accounts has me rethinking webmail as well. It's pretty hard to compete with gmail's interface & features (not to mention 6 GB of storage space if you want to use it for a full-time webmail app!)

[hobbes]

And the occasional loss of messages with no possibility of recovery :)

[Jeff]

Statistically I bet less people lost gmail email than home users who simply never backed up their email and had a drive or other crash. For important mailboxes, you can set a computer to download but not delete to have a local archive of everything. (or keep a server-side archive by setting the alias stack to duplicate some addresses, etc.)

[Terra]

And the occasional loss of messages with no possibility of recovery
I feel it is important to state that we cannot run backups on the POP toasters... The astronomical high numbers of small files shoots disk I/O through the roof to the point it debilitates off server backups... Consider the difference in backing up a single 1GB file, versus backing up 262,144 4KB files (in relative terms multiplied by: N x GB / 4)...

The POP toasters are protected by RAID-1 arrays, however as seen by both SAMSON and recently HUGO, that is not always foolproof...

Please, make periodic downloads of your mail if you use IMAP services... DISCLAIMER: If there is a dual drive failure on a POP toaster, then your server side stored email will not be retrievable... POP toasters and backups are mutually exclusive performance and time wise...

[artemis]

Thanks Binky, Jeff, Hobbes, and Terra !!

The only problem with gmail is that he wants his messages to continue to look professional - ie come from his domain - as you can probably tell, I don't use gmail (my brother used to work at Yahoo so I've gotten used to yahoo mail for my disposable accounts) - from my experience with yahoo mail, that means the email he sends will have a gmail return address on it - am I wrong?

[Bob]

You can set a number of "Accounts" in your Gmail settings, I have 6 addresses listed that I can send mail from. Gmail also has a setting that automatically will reply to a message from the address it was originally sent to.

Just for clarification if you look at the raw headers of the message the Return-Path is the actual Gmail address...

The email will show the From: address as you have set Gmail to use but the Return-Path: will show the actual Gmail address and there is also a sender field that is added to the headers that show the gmail address.

here is a sample, with the names changed to protect the innocent :)

From - Mon Feb 11 14:02:51 2008
Return-Path: <user@gmail.com>
Delivered-To: user@futurequest.net
Message-ID: <fdcaeff70802111102n5840e3abo69265ed34c899350@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:02:37 -0500
From: "Bob" <user@example.com>
Sender: user@gmail.com
To: "Bob Johnson" <user@futurequest.net>
Subject: Header test

-Bob

[Binky]

I set up Gmail to access one of my FQ mail accounts a few days ago. It seemed to work well but I also discovered that mail sent from Gmail has something like the following in the "From" field:

My Name <myname@mydomain.com>, sent by <myname@gmail.com>

This is confusing for recipients and so I've given up using Gmail for this purpose.

Just realized I pretty much repeated what Bob said.

[Jeff]

Sorry - I didn't realize that "feature" built in :( I had hoped that since it checks the external accounts it would send from them too instead of "faking it" - Blast. Other than that, it's great. :yttantr: