Re: [Evolution] Resent mail?

[Eric Lambart <lambart got net>]

Cool.  I'm very glad you agree!  IIRC, at least some of your colleagues
didn't.

I'm also pretty sure there's already such a bug; or comments on another
bug related to Edit-as-New, at least.

--Eric

P.S. due to another long-lived bug, copy & paste doesn't really work
either because you can't copy from a preview pane or message window
(well OK, you can do it using X-style C & P but not with Ctrl-C and
Ctrl-V).

On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 18:39, Aaron Weber wrote:
> 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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