To prevent your session from timing out, especially when you are composing mail messages, display your INBOX in the main WebMail window. WebMail does this to conserve resources on the server, and also as a security measure in case you forget to log out on a public-use machine. If this takes more than several minutes, the session will time out automatically. When you are composing or reading a message, you are interacting only with your browser, not the WebMail server. The WebMail server maintains a 'session' with your browser, but the session eventually times out if WebMail detects no activity between the browser and the server. Q: I spent a long time composing a message in WebMail, and it was lost when I tried to send it.
