Why doesn OWA in a non-I.E. browser save my in-progress message when it times out?
If the OWA session times out, unsaved content is not retained. This means that if it takes a user over 40 minutes (the public setting session time period) to compose an email on a “public” computer, they will lose everything that they have typed when they click Send. If the user has clicked the “Save” icon (indicated by the floppy disk image) during those 40 minutes, the message will be in the Drafts folder up to the save point. Clicking the Save icon may reset the session time data. This applies to all browsers because it’s controlled by the UMail server, not the browser. This is relatively normal behavior for web-based e-mail. The old campus email system via Webmail had a similar time out “feature” so campus users who have been using the Web for e-mail access are likely to be used to this.
