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When composing an outgoing message in Thunderbird, is autosave to Draft an option?

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I'm running Thunderbird 128.4.3esr (64-bit) under Windows 10, and have been a Thunderbird fan for at least 2 or 3 years. I can't believe that, up until now, my outgoing messages were all just very short, but after a recent Thunderbird update I now am interrupted when composing an email message, with a notification that my message is being saved in the Drafts folder. This is somewhat annoying, can that be turned off? I have saved composed message to Drafts manually on many occasions, so I don't want to kill that function entirely, but I'd like to dispense with that pop-up notification that breaks my fragile train of thought. Thanks in advance for any tips.

I'm running Thunderbird 128.4.3esr (64-bit) under Windows 10, and have been a Thunderbird fan for at least 2 or 3 years. I can't believe that, up until now, my outgoing messages were all just very short, but after a recent Thunderbird update I now am interrupted when composing an email message, with a notification that my message is being saved in the Drafts folder. This is somewhat annoying, can that be turned off? I have saved composed message to Drafts manually on many occasions, so I don't want to kill that function entirely, but I'd like to dispense with that pop-up notification that breaks my fragile train of thought. Thanks in advance for any tips.

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TB menu > Settings > Composition > Autosave every..

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TB menu > Settings > Composition > Autosave every..

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That's what I was looking for, and probably saw but didn't recognize. Anyway, thanks much, Ed, and for being so quick too!

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You're welcome :-)

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