Subject: enhancement req re postponed composition

From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:28:49 GMT

I just tried to postpone composition of a message so that I could get 
back to my mail folder and refer to another message. I was told that 
another message composition had also been postponed and so I couldn't 
postpone the current one. I didn't know I had another one postponed, and 
that raises this enhancement request.

I think what would be useful would be for Pine to remind me at some point
that I have already postponed a composition. Not just when I start it up,
because now that I can run it in a Window I leave it running, but also
when I Reply to or Forward a message that puts me into the composer

Alternatively, or in addition, maybe Pine could allow multiple postponed 
compositions (would this tie in with the proposed /Unsent flag in imap?)?

John Stumbles                                       [email-masked]
University of Reading                                              0734 318435
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:54:31 -0800 (PST)

John,

Currently, Pine reminds you when you enter the composer for an original
composition.  I think it would be terribly distracting to be prompted to
resume a postponed composition on reply or forward.  We do plan to implement
multiple postponed compositions in the future.  I don't know how or if it
will tie in with the /UNSENT proposal. Thanks for the request! 

--DLM

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From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 18:53:25 GMT

> will tie in with the /UNSENT proposal. Thanks for the request! 

Thanks, I think multiple postponed composition is the way to go.  Funnily
enough, in composing this reply (or rather the version before, 'coz Pine
crashed out and lost that message :-( - see my earlier bug report) I got a
flash that I had new mail from David L Miller re: postponed composition,
so I postponed and went to see your mail (it was just the other copy of
this message which you'd sent to me and to the list) and then returned. 

Really it's all a workaround for not having a true Windows Pine, in which 
the index, received message viewer and composer are separate windows with 
multiple instances which the user can swap between. I'm not hassling you 
guys - I'm sure you have lives outside work :-) - just making a (wishful) 
observation!

> On Wed, 16 Feb 1994, I (John Stumbles) wrote:
> 
> > ... but also