Re: Sent as Draft? (was: Re: [Evolution] bugs)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Unfortunately this isn't possible, and I'm sure it'd be a good idea even
if it were?

I think that it's best that the Sent folder contains the exact
byte-for-byte copy that was sent so that you as the user can confirm
that it sent what you expected it to send - (WYSIWYG?).

the reason that it's not possible is that the message that gets queued
to Outbox is the same message that later gets moved to the Sent folder
once the message has been successfully sent. okay, so... what if we
instead copied the html version to the Outbox instead? well, that would
make it so that the Sent folder could have the html version as well,
except that now we have to mungle the CamelMimeMessage object pre-send
so that the copy we sent to the SMTP server is just the text/plain
version... this is pretty icky.

Jeff

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 21:15, guenther wrote:
> cheers();
>
>
> > bug #36863 :  resend mail / preformat
>
> RESOLVED NOTABUG 
>
> --- snip ---
> this isn't a bug, since your mesage was saved as text/plain it doesn't
> hold any formatting options and so re-editing it will always go back
> to Preformat because otherwise the line-wrapping may not stay consistant.
> --- snip ---
>
>
> That's true, as it really is saved as text/plain.
>
> So I got the Idea to save 'sent' messages like a 'draft': Content-Type:
> multipart/alternative.
>
> That would improve re-editing and sending mails a lot, as paragraphs are
> preserved and flow, when changing words. 
>
> Would even make the context-menu (right click) more an 'Edit as new
> message' (as it states) instead of 'resend with option to edit' as it
> is.
>
>
> Any thoughts about that? What do you want?
>
> I will file a wishlist entry in bugzilla, if I am not the only one...
>
> ...guenther
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com