"Draft in process of saving, try again later" is back?

Problem reported by webmaster - 11/24/2020 at 11:47 AM

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I've been reading posts from back in July/August about this issue. Curtis had noted it was resolved in a custom build back then. We recently upgraded the software to 7619, until this update, we had never seen this issue before. Now getting reports from multiple customers about this issue. Here is a client report:

"This happened last week as a one off but has now happened several times today....I'm typing an email, autosave seems to happen, I go to send said email and it gives the warning as shown on the attached....I can't save it or send it - I have to copy the text and close out the email, open a new one, paste then send. Also, although it says it is saving as a draft - it does not :)"

Is this once again a known issue? Is there a way to fix or is another custom build in the works? Thank you.

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Andrew Barker Replied

11/24/2020 at 1:20 PM

Employee Post

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Unfortunately, we have not had any luck trying to reproduce this issue. I understand that this issue is being reported by your customers, but would it be possible to get some more information about what is going on? I've listed some questions below that might help us figure out what is going on.

What browser and OS are they using?
About how long was the message being composed?
Was the window left inactive for any amount of time?

Andrew Barker
Software Developer
SmarterTools Inc.
(877) 357-6278
www.smartertools.com

Webio Replied

11/30/2020 at 1:05 AM

You can add also my ticket to this group:

12E-2700A2A0-0B21

it is very hard to reproduce but it occurs from time to time.

MacOSX - Latest Safari - message was composed quite quickly (2 lines of text) and not being opened too long. Message was also part of long message conversation with non english characters.

webmaster Replied

12/2/2020 at 1:53 PM

Thanks for the reply. I have spoken to a client and this is the information I was given.

Browser: Firefox

Length of message: a short reply to a message received in ongoing thread. Happens as new message as well, long or short.

Browser inactivity: Customer reports this happens if window is left inactive or not. Sometimes happens soon after starting a new message.

Cary Gouge Replied

2/11/2021 at 11:31 AM

the same this is happening to me. The red message pops up sometimes, blue "Saving draft" is more frequent.

SEND with no results has also been frequent today.

Ionel Aurelian Rau Replied

2/12/2021 at 1:43 AM

Hmm, this is worrisome, I really do hope this is not coming back.

echoDreamz Replied

2/25/2021 at 6:47 PM

We have a user reporting this as well.

Nathan McKAy Replied

3/2/2021 at 10:47 AM

I don't know if this helps, but the users I have that are reporting it primarily use Firefox. I have only has 2 claims from users using Chrome/Edge and 10+ from those using Firefox.

echoDreamz Replied

3/2/2021 at 12:13 PM

Ditto, same issue here, user is using Firefox.

Andrea Free Replied

3/2/2021 at 2:11 PM

Employee Post

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry to hear your users are having this issue while composing emails in the interface. Unfortunately, this has been a tricky one to pin down since we haven't been able to replicate the behavior locally. If you have users currently experiencing this problem, please submit a support ticket for further review. In your support ticket, please provide as many of these details as possible:

Are there any other patterns you've seen or that your users have reported?
Which browser is the user using?
Does this happen when using a private/incognito browser? If it does not, please provide a list of the plugins/extensions the user has installed.
How many users on your server have reported this? Are they on the same domain?
Does this happen with new messages, replies and forwards?
how long do they have the compose window open before it occurs?
Do you have any user who can replicate this behavior on-demand, even it it's only after 10-15 minutes of trying? If so, we'd like to request they send some browser information using the Developer Tools window. If they open the dev tools for the compose window, they can choose to Preserve/Persist Logs for the Network and Console tabs. If they can then replicate the issue, we can review those logs to see what information can be found.

Thank you,

Andrea Free
SmarterTools Inc.
877-357-6278
www.smartertools.com

JerseyConnect Team Replied

3/5/2021 at 2:23 PM

We are also getting reports of this issue. Multiple users are affected and they are all on different domains. I'll try and get the additional details you're looking for.

echoDreamz Replied

3/8/2021 at 12:17 PM

Our user reporting the issue said it just stopped happening. No changes have been done on our end, they said nothing changed on their end. Weird for sure.

William Leaver Replied

3/10/2021 at 10:01 AM

I had a dickens of a time with this one as well on 7642 (which I'm still on). It seemed to mysteriously stop for no known reason.

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SmarterUser Replied

3/22/2021 at 11:53 AM

This continues to happen on the latest build. It happens to several of our users, and it happens to me. It's not possible to force it to happen, but it is frequent. Some resolution needed.

Linda Pagillo Replied

3/22/2021 at 11:57 AM

I also have users with the same issue even after upgrading to the latest build this past weekend (SmarterMail Enterprise 100.0.7719.31036 (Feb 18, 2021).

Linda Pagillo
Mail's Best Friend
Email: linda.pagillo@mailsbestfriend.com
Web: www.mailsbestfriend.com

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Kyle Kerst Replied

3/22/2021 at 4:56 PM

Employee Post

Just posting here to give everyone a quick update. I've been testing against these scenarios for the better part of a month now or so, but have had zero luck in getting it reproduced in house, which as you're all aware is half the battle!

I have tested this under Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and the Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge combination without luck, though it seems from these comments here that the majority of issues are affecting Firefox.

If you could all post extensions/addons installed in Firefox and an outline of the Firefox version this might help narrow down the root cause or at least point us in the right direction in getting the problem replicated for our development team. Thanks everyone, we hope to get to the bottom of this ASAP!

Kyle Kerst

Technical Support Specialist

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

Linda Pagillo Replied

3/22/2021 at 7:42 PM

Firefox 86.0.1 on Windows 10.

Only extension is LastPass.
Only plugins are OpenH264 and Widevine

Linda Pagillo
Mail's Best Friend
Email: linda.pagillo@mailsbestfriend.com
Web: www.mailsbestfriend.com

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William Leaver Replied

3/25/2021 at 4:19 PM

Had it happen today after not having seen it for several months. I'm going to chalk it up to the change to standard time, as it seems it wasn't an issue during daylight savings, sort of the opposite of the mysterious 1 hour MAPI appointment problem that SmarterTools is also having a hard time finding and fixing.

SM Build 7719, Safari 14.0.2 on macOS Big Sur 11.1.

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JerseyConnect Team Replied

3/25/2021 at 6:23 PM

All of our users who reported the issue either never followed-up with additional info or responded that the issue stopped occurring.

CTL Replied

3/26/2021 at 12:22 AM

Hello All

Firefox issue long pending issue. I have requested my customer work with EDGE or Chrome for a better result. Some of the old builds work fine, the same issue reappears again latest few release

Cary Gouge & webmaster your user info is correct

Please have a look at my earlier post

https://portal.smartertools.com/community/a93515/build-7537-firefox-browser-issue-reply-mail-send-button-not-working.aspx

FYI My current SM 7719 & up to latest firefox

Karl Jones Replied

4/26/2021 at 1:02 PM

One of my clients has just reported this happening as of the most recent update.
Another client reported it in a previous build around the same time this thread was started but another update seemed to have stopped it happening.
I am collecting further info for now.

echoDreamz Replied

4/26/2021 at 2:14 PM

Same, we had 2 clients report it today, we went to ask for more info and we were informed the issue has gone... Seems it is fully random.

All 3 of our user reports have been Firefox-based though.

Mike Mulhern Replied

5/5/2021 at 8:49 AM

Having same issue with Firefox and build = 7776

Elle Spark Replied

5/6/2021 at 3:36 AM

How to cope this issue in Firefox, its really terrible.

Tim Uzzanti Replied

5/10/2021 at 1:37 PM

Employee Post

Elle, can you reproduce it? If we can see it, we can fix it but we can reproduce it and it seems to happen very infrequently for people.

Tim Uzzanti

CEO

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

Karl Jones Replied

5/10/2021 at 2:19 PM

One of my users today reported this problem had returned. He is using Firefox. I asked him to use another browser and report back, not heard anything yet but he had not had the problem since i reported it on 26 Apr and i cleared the cache.

Tim Uzzanti Replied

5/10/2021 at 2:32 PM

Employee Post

Karl, common denominator does seem to be FireFox but we haven't been able to replicate it. Firefox has been a mess lately and this could be an issue with the browser itself. In the meantime, we keep trying to reproduce it and / or waiting for a customers that can replicate it.

Tim Uzzanti

CEO

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

Karl Jones Replied

5/10/2021 at 4:37 PM

Tim, I will check in with the user who is having the trouble to see if chrome or opera give him the same problem. He is the only user of nearly 50 that has reported this, He is also the only one connected via a sophos RED (Remote Ethernet Device) so not sure if this hardware might be causing it.
Just reiterating that i cleared the cache last time and it all started working... I have updated Smartermail since then too, now on the current version.

echoDreamz Replied

5/10/2021 at 6:44 PM

Had a Firefox user report this today, we went to get remote access and the bug went away, so random. I have Firefox locally and keep trying to get this to reproduce and nothing...

This user had no addons installed, no special security software (Windows Defender). Also running the latest SM.

William Leaver Replied

5/11/2021 at 10:32 AM

The problem shows up sporadically for me on Safari. Doesn't seem to be limited to only Firefox.

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Tim Uzzanti Replied

5/11/2021 at 10:42 AM

Employee Post

Interesting, we haven't seen anyone report the issue other than on Firefox.

Tim Uzzanti

CEO

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

SmarterUser Replied

5/14/2021 at 5:32 PM

The third message in this thread was also a report on Safari.

William Leaver Replied

8/3/2021 at 10:42 AM

FWIW this has started happening again for me lately (using Safari.)

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Sébastien Riccio Replied

1/3/2022 at 2:53 AM

Hi. Some customers recently reported this issue. Any idea what could be the source of the problem ?

Sébastien Riccio

System & Network Admin

https://swisscenter.com

John Calhoun Replied

1/11/2022 at 12:22 PM

I had a user report this today. Any updates on this issue? My user is on Firefox...

William Leaver Replied

1/17/2022 at 10:51 AM

I continue to experience this as well across multiple browsers.

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Ron Raley Replied

1/24/2022 at 11:42 AM

This has been reported to us as of today.

Tim Uzzanti Replied

1/24/2022 at 12:48 PM

Employee Post

Do you ever have your phone on silent, and then you feel a vibration in your pocket, only to pull out your phone and it didn't actually vibrate? There aren't any notifications. Then it keeps happening -- those phantom notifications. It's annoying, and perplexing.

Well, we're at the same point with this issue. Every month a couple of customers report it. The other millions and milllions worldwide don't have the issue. Honestly, we can't replicate it in house, so if anyone can help, please let us know. We have done everything possible.Heck, it may not even be a SmarterMail issue, but something outside of SmarterMail but nobody seems to be able to replicate.

Tim Uzzanti

CEO

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

Webio Replied

1/24/2022 at 1:25 PM

This is happening quite often on my wifes account. She even stopped reporting this to me. When this is happening she must copy her message to clipboard, close window with reply message, open reply message again and paste message from clipboard. I had here and there some similar reports but no one is complaining right now or they just stopped reporting it just like my wife :-). She is working on MacBook Pro M1 and Safari browser. How quickly after message is being started to be composed saving draft is occuring? As far as I remember when I experienced this kind of problem JS error came up quite fast which stripped whole new message window of any functionality (and thats why it must to be closed and opened again).

EDIT: Maybe we could have some kind of mechanism which will allow to disable draft saving as an admin or two fields how often draft is being saved and second one after how many minutes first draft should be saved. This could help narrowing problem to draft saving or excluding draft saving and maybe pointing it to editor or something else.

Sébastien Riccio Replied

1/24/2022 at 2:03 PM

We had a few reports of this. Most of them were using firefox. We checked if they had some extensions installed that could cause the issue but most of them had no extensions installed.

Some of these affected customers asked us to disable the automatic draft save function to avoid the issue as they find it very annoying as it completly defeat the purpose of automatic saves.

They often have to start over redacting their e-mail, if they don't paste it somewhere first as a backup.

I personally wasn't able to reproduce the issue and we got no real solution for the affected customers except asking them to try with another browser, which in some case helped.

Still it could be useful to allow the users to disable automatic drafts savings for this reason and some other reasons.

Sébastien Riccio

System & Network Admin

https://swisscenter.com

Ron Raley Replied

1/24/2022 at 8:15 PM

Tim Uzzanti Replied

1/25/2022 at 12:53 PM

Employee Post

I've had Firefox running for 36 hours with a compose window open and didn't make any changes in the window for hours, added attachments, changed text and more. I found a small bug that could orphan a draft, but could not duplicate this issue. We have a lot of hours into trying to find this so PLEASE let us know if you can reproduce. We are also adding a setting for people who do not want auto-saves.... which can also be used to see if it helps this situation.

With Firefox having less than 4% of the market share and every complaint being Firefox with a handful of (I think they also tried another browser) which has been said maybe a half dozen times, this looks like its all Firefox and where we are spending our time. Trying to find a "maybe" in the 96% of the market doesn't seem like time well spent.

The setting will be in our next major BETA coming in about a month. Lot of cool stuff.

Tim Uzzanti

CEO

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

William Leaver Replied

1/27/2022 at 10:25 AM

Happens on Safari very regular for me so it's not just Firefox. I'll see if I can get it to happen with new newly created account and will raise a ticket if so.

I have other users reporting it as well.

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Kyle Kerst Replied

1/27/2022 at 1:30 PM

Employee Post

@William: I just completed a round of testing on this using Safari on MacOS (latest update) and was not able to reproduce. If you can provide me a rough outline of what steps you see this under usually I can try to do some more testing. Thanks!

Kyle Kerst

Technical Support Specialist

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

echoDreamz Replied

1/28/2022 at 2:21 PM

We had a random ticket today about this too, also Firefox. User said they were typing an email, stepped about for about 90 seconds to help a co-worker, came back and the notice was there. No plugins installed, no adblockers, no security software aside from Defender.

As far as reproducing, he said he was just typing the body of the message (with the subject and recipient (2x) filled in), stepped away, came back and the notice was there.

William Leaver Replied

2/2/2022 at 10:57 AM

I haven't yet put enough troubleshooting into this just yet, and this may not be an issue, but...

I have yet to duplicate the issue on a non-EAS test mailbox I've set up, whereas an EAS mailbox on the same domain seems to have it happen at least weekly.

Anyone else notice whether it has ever happened on a non-EAS mailbox?

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Kyle Kerst Replied

2/3/2022 at 3:25 PM

Employee Post

That is an interesting observation William, hopefully this is something the other affected users can take a look for us as well. I've done all of my testing on newly created (non-EAS accounts) and my own (EAS and MAPI enabled) but have been unable to reproduce thus far. Personally I believe there is likely a client-side component to it that we're missing in our testing here. That would explain why most people don't have issues with it but the ones who do; really do!

Kyle Kerst

Technical Support Specialist

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

Sébastien Riccio Replied

2/3/2022 at 5:27 PM

I checked the configuration of the users having this issue. They do not have EAS activated. One is having EAS/MAPI enabled but I don't think they use it as there is no "synchronized device".

Sébastien Riccio

System & Network Admin

https://swisscenter.com

Tim Uzzanti Replied

2/4/2022 at 11:46 AM

Employee Post

We haven't seen that correlation with end users and it would be a real stretch on the backend.

We continue to test and try to duplicate on live accounts with tons of clients and simple accounts etc.

Tim Uzzanti

CEO

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

Schroeder Robert Replied

2/17/2023 at 2:22 AM

Hi, on latest build 8251 my father told me that he receive this error quite often , around 2 out of 10 mails he write a day. He is using Firefox (mainly), Win 10. No special tools, as internet security we use AVG. But I'm also usinge firefox at home + work, win11 and win10, at home also AVG and I got this issue but this was the case 1 perhaps all 3 month, and i'm using webmail a lot. I'll check this closer

Kyle Kerst Replied

2/20/2023 at 4:11 PM

Employee Post

Hi Robert, sorry to hear your father is having trouble with this! 9 times out of 10 the issue is time related on the affected device, so I'd check the Windows or MacOS time settings to confirm they are up to date, within alignment with a network time server, and have been set to automatically update first and foremost.

Kyle Kerst

Technical Support Specialist

SmarterTools Inc.

(877) 357-6278

www.smartertools.com

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