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Thunderbird has started sending incomplete messages to recipients during message composition every time it auto-saves! Why!

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If autosave set to 1 minute, premature emails sent every minute. If autosave set to 2 minutes, premature emails sent every 2 minutes. Have re-installed latest version of Thunderbird 52.2.1, but problem persists.

If autosave set to 1 minute, premature emails sent every minute. If autosave set to 2 minutes, premature emails sent every 2 minutes. Have re-installed latest version of Thunderbird 52.2.1, but problem persists.

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Woa! That's scary. Until some programmer type gives a full answer here is a possible work around. For one you could turn off auto-save but auto-save is good. I sometimes put in an extra address line "not yet" which is an invalid address. Forces me to think before sending and avoids accidentally sending. You get a "can't send because of invalid address" error. When you're ready you remove that address line.

I will be very interested to hear what the full answer to this nasty quirk is.