Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org>:
Quoting Jochen Roderburg <roderb...@uni-koeln.de>:
Another issue upon which I stumbled again when I made my tests for
the cache problem:
The IMP behaviour regarding "drafts" that I know from IMP3 is:
I can click on a draft in the drafts folder, get it in a compose
screen, can continue working on it and send it. After this the
draft is still stored in the folder for future use.
In the traditional Interface of IMP4 this works the same, but in
DIMP the stored draft is unconditionally deleted after sending. No
question, no warning, nothing, it is just gone.
Bug or new future, configuration or what?
This is certainly not the expected and wanted behaviour!!
Yes it is. A draft is, by definition (RFC 3501 [2.3.2]), a "[m]essage
[that] has not completed composition." Thus, the natural extension is
that once the message HAS completed composition, it is no longer
needed. This is no different than any other message you compose - once
you hit send, you have no access to the content of that message anymore.
If that message wasn't deleted, eventually your Drafts folder would
contain hundreds of old drafts. That is obviously not very useful.
If you want to keep a message around to use as a template, you
should be using stationery.
Funny, I just discussed about exactly that with some guy in the K-9
channel. There always have been two different point of views on draft
messages in mail client development. One camp considers a draft a
temporary message state that is obsolete once the message has been
sent. The other sees drafts as message templates. And there is also
some differentiation depending on how the draft was created.
IMP has always been in the latter camp, and we shouldn't silently
change this. I always had the impression that DIMP distinguishes
between auto-saved drafts that are going to be deleted and manually
saved draft that should stick. That would have been the ideal approach
anyway.
Stationery are a good point and we might consider changing to the
other camp with stationery being available in both IMP and DIMP now.
OTOH there is still the use case where I want to write some
mail-merge-like message, sending the same message a few times to
different recipients with slightly different content, like different
titles. I really don't want to go to the preferences and create
stationery just for that.
Jan.
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