Mozilla 1.3 messenger quirk? was Re: debian?

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 17 May 2003 7:14 pm, someone claiming to be Leon A. Goldstein 
wrote:
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> > What's a "send later" bin? Don't seem to have one in my copy of Mozilla.
> > There's an Unsent Messages folder in Netscape 4.77, is that what you
> > mean? Why aren't you using the Drafts folder? Isn't that what it's for,
> > saving messages temporarily until you're ready to send them? Mozilla even
> > offers an Edit Draft button to edit the draft. Double-clicking will bring
> > it up in a compose window (same as Netscape 4.77).
> >
> > Seems to me that "Edit Message As New" certainly should create a new
> > message, though. I'm confused by your confusion :-(
> >
>
> If I click "send later" with NS 4.79, then "edit as new message" the
> stored message, there is only one message created, no matter how many
> times the "edit as new message" function is performed, but  with Mozilla
> 1.3 each  edit action will create a new file with the same name.
>

OK... I got it, now. That's just not how I've ever used any mail client. I've 
always saved messages as Drafts if I wasn't done with them yet. And since I'm 
hooked to broadband all the time, Send Later isn't important to me...

> I guess some Mozilla developer thinks consistency equates to a lack of
> imagination.

Maybe...or it's a bug
<bugzilla search...>
Yep, it's a known bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104409

> Screw it, I'm staying with NS 4.79  Messenger.
>

Whatever floats your boat. FWIW, it appears that KMail does it the way you 
want. When I Queue a message for later delivery, then edit it, a duplicate 
message isn't created. And KMail's filtering and mailing list handling have 
it all over Netscape 4.7x. I wouldn't go back to Netscape's mail client if 
you paid me (well... maybe if you paid me...)

Regards, 
Tim

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