On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 10:49:06 (-0500), Tony Baldwin wrote: > I get random ID crashes, pretty well daily, but no consistently > identifiable cause. It really seems to be occurring very randomly, > I'll just be reading messages when suddenly *pop* it dies like a > soap bubble on a Christmas tree, no error msg, no prior indication > of instability, etc.; Just sudden, random crashing. It generally > comes right back up without issue and functions normally afterwards. > Thankfully, it rarely does it while I'm composing a message, that > would REALLY annoy me, and I would likely have already appeared here > seeking a solution to the problem, but since, so far, it hasn't > caused me any real loss, but rather just minor annoyance, I haven't > mentioned it, until now.
If you compose in an editor like emacs, it auto-saves periodically. With your email tmpdir set to /var/tmp, these will even survive reboots. Cheers, David.