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?
>
>
>
> --
> "The only thing I remember about the last two months is giving a guest
> lecture at Villanova."
>
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