you hit spell check for the very well crafted e mail you have worked on for an hour and the very unstable email system evaporates the entire email, rather than checking the spelling....leaving you to start anew!

Some kind of internal University webmail system is it?

internal email systems like Microsoft Outlook (web version) are evil.

I did the same thing last week....I almost cried because I had spent forever trying to write the thing. I can sympathise !

Yes, its so discouraging when that happens...I should remember to always type the email content in a Word document that I can save, so that if something happens to the email, at least I have saved the content and do not have to start completely over...