Jack LaRosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mystery #1:
> With a folder highlighted, click on the CREATE A NEW MWSSAGE icon.
> The editor starts and you will be presented with the template you
> created for *that* folder (<FOLDER><PROPERTIES><TEMPLATE>). The
> cursor will be at the beginning of the TO field.
Yes.
> TAB to CC, BCC, SUBJECT and once more to the main body of the as yet
> un-written message. It is at this point that TB! replaces the
> _folder_ template text with the _address book_ template text.
I assume that you've created a new message template for that recipient
through an address book entries properties and selecting the option to
use the address book template specifically for new messages to the
recipient. If so, then yes, what you described is what will happen.
> I discovered this only when I inserted the %TO="" macro at the
> bottom of the folder template. Eliminate that macro from the
> template and the problem disappears.
Using the macro is like selecting the address through the address
book, hence, you'll invoke the recipient specific new message
template.
> Is this a bug? Or more probably, what am I doing wrong?
IMHO, it's inconsistent. The To: macro should do things as you
describe below.
> Mystery #2:
> Again with a folder highlighted, click on the DOWN ARROW next to the
> CREATE A NEW MESSAGE icon to bring up your *favorites*. Click on any
> favorite other than that which belongs to the currently highlighted
> folder. The template which appears is the one which exists for the
> currently highlighted folder, not the *favorite* folder. Why?
Now this is no mystery.:) This will occur if you have setup in your
address book, a specific new message template for the recipient
address that you chose.
What should really happen in your first 'mystery' scenario is that the
address book template should be displayed from the very start as it is
in the second 'mystery' scenario. :)
IMHO, each folder should have a toggle switch to suppress address book
specific templates. This should prevent your problem. Otherwise simply
go into the addressee's address book entry properties and deselect the
'use a specific template for new messages' option, whenever you wish
to use the folder templates and not the address book templates.
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