---
title: "Drafts"
description: "Autosaved three seconds after you stop typing, and reopened from the Drafts folder with the recipients, the subject and the body intact. The attachments and the From address stay behind."
url: "https://openemail.uk/docs/knowledge/writing/drafts"
area: "Knowledge base"
category: "Writing & sending"
status: "live"
---

# Drafts

Autosaved three seconds after you stop typing, and reopened from the Drafts folder with the recipients, the subject and the body intact. The attachments and the From address stay behind.

## Details

- The timer restarts on every keystroke, so the write lands three seconds after the last one. A save that fails says nothing. The wait doubles each time, to a ceiling of a minute, and you are told once, after three failures in a row.
- A recipient, a subject or a line of body: any one of the three starts saving, and a composer you have not touched writes nothing. Each save overwrites the same draft rather than leaving a row per keystroke behind.
- Attachments are the gap. A draft keeps their names, types and sizes and not their bytes, because rewriting every file to storage every three seconds while somebody is mid-sentence is not worth what it costs, so a draft you reopen comes back without the files, and they have to be attached again.
- The From address is not read back either; the composer opens on whatever address this workspace last sent from, so a draft begun on one alias can reopen on another. Sending from the Drafts folder removes the saved copy, so nothing is listed in Drafts and Sent at once.