Does webmail time out?

[Nikia]

I wrote a long detailed email to my friend. When I pressed send, it said "Must be logged in to access this page." I had logged in before and checked my email just before I composed the message. Anyway, I logged in. I couldn't get message to come back and it wasn't listed a having been sent. I know that my hour of writing had been wasted and it frustrates me. I wrote a very short version and was able to send it but it conveyed very little and was maybe ten sentences long. I don't get to see this person very often anymore so it is frustrating. I also might want to write long emails in the future to other people as well. I have to use webmail on this computer because my husband sometimes has to use it for business demonstrations. We have cable modem so the internet service shouldn't be the issue.

[trotsky]

1. Depends on the system

But yes, sessions typically timeout after anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes.

There are two things you can do:

1) Write your letter "offline" - use MS Notepad, or a similar text editing program to write your letter. Then, when you are ready to send, go into webmail, compose a message, then copy & paste from where you wrote your letter into the message field. Then click Send!

2) Write your letter in the webmail message field, but before you click Send, highlight the entire thing and hit CTRL-C. (That copies the text to memory.) If your session has timed out or something else goes wrong, just log back in, compose a new message, then press CTRL-V to paste it all back into place.

Hope that helps.

[Nikia]

2. Thanks

I'll compose it on another program. That is probably safest.