Subject: Postpone function - help?

From: Jon Peck <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 11:26:33 -500 (EST)

While Composing a message the other day, my screen flashed a warning that 
the server was about to go down for a backup, and I needed to get off 
line. For the first time ever, I hit Ctrl-O, the Postpone function. As I 
understand it, this dumps the incomplete message into a holding area, and 
I can continue where I left off later. Nice theory.

When I got back on line, I opened the appropriate holding area (called 
"temporary" or something -- whatever it was called, I immediately was 
able to identify it as the aforementioned holding area). My interrupted 
message was there, waiting for me. I could read it with no problem, but I 
couldn't seem to open it in an edit-able format. I tried the Ctrl-C 
(Compose) command, among others, and got the following prompt:
   Continue interrupted compositions (answering "n" won't erase it)?
	[Y]es
	No

Of course, I chose Y.
It then returned a message to the effect that there wasn't really an 
interrupted composition there for me to open. It then moved on to regular 
mail-reading duties.

I was able to utilize my partial message by opening it, going to Reply, 
and changing the adressee from myself to the intended recipient. The 
biggest problem was that this put the reply indicators -- the > at the 
start of each line -- on the saved portions of my original.

Now when I try to reply to any message, I get the same "continue 
interrupted composition?" prompt, with the same "sorry, bub, ain't no 
such creature" result.

What did I do wrong? How can I fix it for next time?

Thanks!

Jon Peck
Tallahassee, FL
[email-masked]

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From: Pierre Thibaudeau <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 13:38:33 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 23 Dec 1994, Jon Peck wrote:

[...]
> interrupted composition there for me to open. It then moved on to regular 
[...]

The (C)ompose command will offer you to "Continue postponed composition" 
from anywhere *but* will not work within the postponed-msgs folder itself.

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