Re: [Evolution] Resent mail?

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

Eric: 

  Quite right. Of course, you can just reply, or copy&paste. I'll file a bug on the "Edit as New" issue though, because, frankly, you're entirely right. It makes little or no sense.

Aaron.


On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 21:22, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 17:56, Aaron Weber wrote:
> > If I recall correctly from previous discussion of this issue, it was
> > decided not to include the featire commonly known as  "Bounce" or
> > "Resend," because it was just too similar to plain-old-forwarding, and
> > was considered by many to be a violation of principle, as it led to
> > confusion as to who had actually sent the message.  
>
> Yes, that's fine.  But that means that messages sent from Evolution must
> be recognized as such even when moved into another folder, so the user
> who sent the message may send it again.  I'll bet this is what the
> original poster was looking for.  This is a usability issue.  Ideally,
> no one should have to ask such a question.
>
> The reasoning which lead to the creation of the "Edit as New Message"
> feature for the Sent folder must, by logical extension, be applied to
> any sent message in any folder.
>
> If implementing that is too complex, then users should be allowed to
> "Edit as New" any message in any folder, though I'd say this is not
> ideal.  In any case, any notion of a "violation of principle" is, IMHO,
> taking principles a bit too far anyway, since obviously anyone may
> Forward Inline and remove the headers indicating who the message
> originally came from.
>
> However, if it's just an issue of reducing confusion for novice users,
> not restricting "improper" activities that can't in any case be
> prevented, I'd agree it's a reasonable idea.  But I for one am tired of
> having to re-move messages to the Sent folder just so I can edit them
> "As New" and them move them back to the folder where they belong. Just
> for fun, I took your (Aaron's) message, moved it to my Sent folder, and
> had no trouble committing the crime of editing it "As New".  I just
> didn't send it ;)
>
> --Eric
>
> > We do, however, have Forward Inline which is quite close to what you're
> > asking for-- it sends the old message unquoted as the body of the new
> > message.  The only difference is that it's listed as being from you
> > rather than from the other person.
> > 
> > Yours,
> > Aaron Weber
> > Ximian, Inc.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 15:18, Eric Lambart wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     Yes, but it only works for messages in your Sent folder, not any sent
> >     messages that may have been moved to another folder, which is a bit
> >     confusing and may be why Yee-Ting couldn't find it.
> >     
> >     --Eric
> >     
> >     On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 10:24, Brady Hegberg wrote:
> >     > Do you know about the "Edit As New Message" command under the "File"
> >     > menu?  I think that's pretty much the same thing.
> >     > 
> >     > On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 10:54, Yee-Ting Li wrote:
> >     > > Great job with evolution! How about a resend message/mail command?

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