Phillip Jones wrote:
[snipping the oldest part of the thread]
In version 1 (correct me if there are changes in v.2), I can
explicitly save a message as a draft, and it stays there
indefinitely until I take some explicit action like deleting or
sending it. Additionally, the program automatically saves the
message I'm currently composing as a draft every five minutes
(default, I can set a different interval), as a backup measure. So
if I take more than five minutes to compose, there's a backup copy
until I hit "Send." If transmission succeeds, SM moves it to
"Sent," otherwise it keeps it in "Drafts" and notifies me of the
problem.
correct the way it supposed to work, Now templates whatever is there
is permanent until you remove it. when you send something you send a
copy not the original.
OK, you're probably technically right at the machine level, that a
"move" is essentially a copy followed by a delete, but the user doesn't
conceptualize it that way.
If I manually save a message as a draft more than once, I get a series
of drafts in the "Drafts" folder, and when I finally send it, only the
latest version is moved to "Sent." I must delete the previous versions
manually. But autosaved drafts overwrite the previous version.
On Mac if you save as another Draft another copy is added with the exact
same name just the date and time is different.
Yes, I think I said that.
In one case, I had a troublesome message in "Drafts" for several weeks
as I went back and forth over how to compose it. Eventually, I thought
better of it and deleted it. But SM never bothered it. It stayed put
just as if it were in any other folder.
As noted above, "Send Unsent Messages" does not affect the contents of
"Drafts." It only looks in "Unsent Messages" (v.1) or "Outbox" (v.2).
The advantage of "Templates" is that if I open one, compose and send it,
the original stays put and I can reopen it and draft another message
based on that same template. Each modified version, when sent, is copied
to "Sent," but the untouched original stays put.
And finally, messages saved in user-created folders stay put, too, until
the user moves or deletes them.
Where do you copy message that may need to be resent to newsgroups.
I dunno, I don't generally hem and haw over NG postings, and I hardly
ever have to resend because they go through on the first try. But if a
posting failed, I suppose SM would tell me and I could reattempt while
the composition window was still open. I don't manually close the
composition window while sending is in progress.
In previous SM and Mozilla You could have seamonkey copy a message and
if it needed to be resent (problem at the newsgroup or whatever) you
could go to that copy choose edit massage as new. then choose send and
it would.
Yes, that makes sense. Normally I have SM set to copy sent messages to
the "Sent" folder, and if I need to resend or forward them, that's where
I look.
Now if you try a message comes up message was not sent, and something
about for email only and if you continued command will be ignored.
I don't follow, and I don't recognize this experience.
this is regardless if copied to email directory or to the Local
Directory.
I've never had anything in Local Folders, if that's what you mean,
though I'm aware that other users do.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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