> On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Juanita Fischer wrote:
>
> > 2. Postpone a message I've begun instead of having to save it to a file
> > and retrieve it later.
>
> Yes, I have just gone through this myself. It appears that one
> has to first exit YARN, so that it packages the MESSAGE.SND and
> REPLIES into the IOXR.ZIP reply file. Then you can start a second
> new mail message, (wiping out the first MESSAGE.SND!) and this
> 2nd msg will be added to the reply packet, IOXR.ZIP upon exit.
>
> This seems like an unnecessary step, this exiting. An Outbox,
> in addition to the existing Inbox, would be - as in OLX-
> a proper place to find these prepared mail messages. OLX also
> has an export command which accomplishes the above .MSG to .REP
> conversion without having to leave the olr program.
Why can't you simply "send" the partially finished mail message, but skip
processing the reply packet until later?
If you leave the reply ZIP file in the Yarn directory, and then enter Yarn
later (if you choose to leave), use "R" from the main newsgroup selection
display, and that will extract the replies a/o postings you had made from
the reply packet. Choose the "MAIL" folder or the "NEWS" folder, and use
"E" to edit the unfinished reply to finish it.
I'm not understanding something. Yarn has functionality which closely
approximates the OUTBOX in OLX v3.0 (which I used for years), and I use
it all the time to review messages (and perhaps re-edit them) before I
finally decide to send them.
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