On 2010/01/25, at 7:26, Michael A. Alderete wrote:

> Of the features I still genuinely miss from Eudora, the unified Outbox / 
> Drafts / Sent mailbox is the biggest. With Eudora, there was no Drafts 
> mailbox, no Sent mailbox, only the Outbox. Messages had a status that 
> differentiated them, e.g., draft, sent, queued. There was never any confusion 
> where an email I had written would be found, messages wouldn't move around 
> depending on things the app was doing behind my back, network or timing 
> issues, etc.; it was always the Outbox. 
> 
> Aside from being simple and clear, the other behavior I liked about Eudora 
> was the ability to enqueue messages for sending. With Apple Mail, something 
> is either in draft (and will never be sent without explicit action) or sent. 
> 
> With Eudora, when I thought an email was ready to send, I would enqueue it. 
> It would be sent at the next mail check (manual or timed). (It was also 
> possible to enqueue a message for sending at a specific time in the future, 
> useful for pretending to work late. :-) I could consider the message dealt 
> with, no further attention required, but I generally had a few minutes where, 
> if another thought popped into my head, or my temper cooled, I could go back 
> and add to or edit the message.

I agree. I had totally forgotten about that in the intervening decade, but that 
Eudora feature was very useful.

And I also agree with Ciao's suggestion that Option-send should then mean Send 
Immediately.
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