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Subject: Bug#6901: Sending incomplete messages.....
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: 2000-11-05 3:24:59
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On Saturday 04 November 2000 22:12, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
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> >I don't agree. If you edit, for example, the message with vi in
> >sendmails
> >outgoing queue, it will be also sent.
> >IMO you have to do move the message to a "safe" folder, e.g. Inbox, and
> >then do Message->"Send again".
> >Or ensure that mails are not sent while you are editing
>
> It's unreasonable to expect an average user to do this. In addition,
> you CANNOT edit messages that are anywhere but the outbox. ("Sorry,
> only messages in the outbox can be edited.").
>
> Instead, what's really needed is a "Drafts" folder, or something with
> similar functionality. If you want to postpone a message it would go
> there. If you try to edit a message in the outbox, it would go there.
>
> That's a better solution than editing inplace in the outbox.
Actually the most important needed thing that will fix this is a proper
internal representation of a message, recursive, and reference counted.
Messages could be locked while being editted and thus sending would be
postponed. A drafts folder would be nice, but there would still be issues.
Actually we should allow multiple drafts folders too.
--
George Staikos
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