// ==UserScript== // @author langware // @version 1.0 // @name Hotmail Auto Save Interval // @description Sets the interval (in minutes) for Hotmail's Auto Save to Drafts feature // @include http://*.mail.live.com/* // @include https://*.mail.live.com/* // @include http://mail.live.com/* // @include https://mail.live.com/* // @date Oct 8, 2009 // @injectframes 1 // ==/UserScript== // This script can be used to change the interval that messages are auto saved in Hotmail. // You must change the value below from 3 to whatever value (in minutes) you wish for the interval. // Be sure to read the NOTES shown below. window.wrappedJSObject.ComposePage.autoSaveDraft.interval = 3; // NOTES ---- Please read all notes below ----- // Hotmail's default auto save interval is every 3 minutes. // By setting a new value for the interval in the above line of code, // the auto save interval can be changed. // Due to the timing of when this script is invoked, it cannot change the first auto save interval. // The Hotmail default interval (3 minutes) is immediately invoked when the // Compose New Message page is opened (which is BEFORE Greasemonkey runs this script). // By the time this script is run, the first interval (3 minutes) is already in progress. // This script then gets run and changes the interval, but that change does not // take effect until the second interval is invoked (three minutes after the Compose // New Message page has been opened). // For example, if you make the interval 5 (minutes), // and start composing a new Hotmail message, then the first interval will be 3 minutes. // After the first 3 minutes, the message will automatically be saved. Then, the 5 minute // interval takes effect. If the message is still being composed 5 minutes later, // it will again be saved to the Drafts folder. // If the message is still being composed after another 5 minutes have elapsed, // it will again be saved. Etc. // This happens for each new message you compose. // I have found a work around to address the above timing "issue" // where the first 3 minute interval cannot be changed. // You do not need to wait the full 3 minutes // for the first interval to expire and the message to be saved. As soon as you open // the Compose New Message page, click the "Save Draft" button. This will manually save the // message being composed and start the second interval. Thereafter, all save intervals will be // based on the value in this script. // For those who want more frequent save intervals (than the default of 3 minutes), // specify a 1 for the interval, and click "Save Draft" when you begin composing your message. // The first (3 minute) interval will be immediately concluded (by manually clicking "Save Draft"), // and the second (and all succeeding) save intervals will be set to 1 minute. // This script cannot be used to completely "disable" the auto save feature, but you can come close. // By specifying a large interval (such as 45) in this script, and manually clicking // the "Save Draft" button as soon as you begin composing your message, the first (3 minute) interval // will be immediately concluded (by manually clicking "Save Draft"), and the second // (and all succeeding) intervals will be large enough (say 45) such that your message will be // completed and sent before the second auto save interval ever occurs. So, you cannot use this // script to disable the auto save feature, but you can set the interval large enough so that // the message will only be saved one time (by the initial click on the "Save Draft" button). // As always, use at your own risk .... your mileage may vary.
