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Discarding an email draft 5

by Adam Marks Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:38 am EDT

Email Application Dropdown Menu Let's say you are writing an email message and decide that you wanted to trash the draft, what do you do? You would think that you could just swipe up to minimize the app into card view and then throw the message off the top of the screen, thereby discarding the message, right? While this would succeed in getting rid of the email message on the screen, webOS will actually save that message into your email account's "Draft" folder.

So, if you wanted to actually totally discard and delete this message, you need to either:

  • Swipe down from the top-left corner to bring up the Email Application drop-down menu and select "Discard Message", or
  • Use the Meta-tap shortcut by pressing the Gesture Area and the D key at the same time.

Note that you can actually use this as a quick way to send yourself a message and sync it up with your email. Just create a new email message, write up your memo or message, and close the card. You don't even need to address the email message. Then, in the future, just go to your Draft folder and you will find this message waiting for you, and it could even be edited if necessary.

Thanks to DanDizzo for suggesting this tip

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or you could use the Priority Discard email patch in preware and have a button to delete an email you don't want to send without having to go into the menu...much more convenient!

whenever I pull up a draft email I can not edit, copy or cut it. I can only add to it. I have to forward it to do so. Then I have to delete the fwd in the subject and the where from in the email.

A similar item -- does anybody know if a swipe right to delete a message (from the main list) simply removes from the MailApp (WebOS) view or issues a delete command on the mail server (ie: IMAP)?

Delete command if you're on IMAP. It basically puts the email in whatever you have set as the "Trash" folder for that account.

I hate that default behavior. A nice patch would be to have the swipe discard nuke the message entirely rather than save it as a draft. I've been wanting that since day one. Maybe transpose the two actions, and have the save as draft be the thing in the menu. That would be ideal.

Yet another thing that should be configurable in the mail app itself. So little flexibility in that thing, and stock webos apps in general. *sigh*