Subject: Re: Reading-in to the Subject: line

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:31:58 -0500

On 2 Apr 1996, Charles H. Hubbell wrote:
> So I go into my sent-mail folder, retrieve my dispatch, and use
> my editor to correct the address.  Now I'd like to send it again,
> in its revised form.
>
> That works fine for the body of the message, but not for
> the Subject: line.

What command do you use to "retrieve your dispatch"?  The way
that I deal with this is to do one of the following:

 * Use the F command to forward the message to the correct address
   and then delete the "(fwd)" at the end of the Subject line and
   the top lines of the message that show it's forwarded.

 * Use the B command to bounce the message to the correct address
   (but this leaves the original incorrect address in the To line)

Neither is perfect but they work OK.  I'm also interested in other
strategies that people use.

  -nancy

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 20:11:31 -0800 (PST)

Nancy,
Another approach is to save the sent-mail copy into your postponed message
folder and then hit Compose.  (Credit to Barry Landy for this idea.)

-teg