On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:10, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 20:06, Tim Lee wrote: > > > > I was wondering why when you open a message in Evolution's Outbox, > > Evolution actually creates a new copy of the message for you to edit. > > This behavior seems a little counter intuitive, I was expecting > > Evolution to open the original message. This behavior may not be a > > problem in the Drafts folder [..] > > Actually, I found it to be counter intuitive even in the Drafts folder, > but it is only my opinion. In any case, it is a safe behavior because it > prevents overwriting, so one may think twice before altering it. Maybe > add a "what to do after editing a message" option defaulting on "save as > a copy, don't touch the old version" and switchable to "overwrite the > old version". > > Or maybe something more in line with the current "composer" tab of the > "mail settings" dialog : a "save a copy of an edited message" checkbox > defaulting on the checked state.
You can only append to mail folders, you can't edit data in place. This is forced upon us by the way mail works. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
