Subj : MultiMail To : William McBrine From : Jim Hanoian Date : Sun May 06 2001 02:18 am -=> William McBrine wrote to Jim Hanoian <=- JH> Amen. Wasn't it a "feature" of the OPX format that you were JH> trying? WM> Partly of the format, and partly of the reader. The format was WM> designed with the idea of one reply per messages. To quote from WM> my opxstrct.h: Yah, seemed like an idea... WM> So, while I was acting with OPX compatibility in mind, it WM> turned out to be unnecessary to limit MultiMail in the same way WM> as SX was limited. The one- reply restriction is implied by the WM> format, but not actually _demanded_ of a compatible reader. At least it is flexible enough to allow this... would that be an oversight or planned? JH> A feature of SX that was never tried was the "hold" capability. Did JH> you ever consider that? WM> If that's what I think it is (I'm only guessing from the name; WM> I'm not familiar with the feature per se), then I'd probably WM> want to do that as part of the long-promised "folders" WM> capability. (There's a "postponed-msgs" folder in the email WM> program Pine; I imagine it working more or less the way that WM> does.) How does it work in SX? Been a while since I played directly with SX, but I believe it is something like a "draft", where you can start a reply but it does not get sent (put into a REP packet) until it comes off "hold". I have drafted replies in the past where I wish I could see more traffic in the conference before I submit my post. Right now, in cases such as that, I download a new packet and I must be careful in NOT deleting the replies when opening the new packet. While this works, it isn't very elegant and delays the other replies that might be in the same REP packet. Seems like a folder plan could handle the concept, but I would imagine that it could be done with a combination of a virtual conference (like Personal or Replies) and saving the draft to a separate file (formatted like a REP) with the BBSID as the root and a special extension like RE_ or HLD or something like that. Upon opening a message packet from that BBSID, the REP gets opened into the Replies virtual conference, and the holds would get the same treatment into a Drafts virtual conference. .... Jim Hanoian, Augusta, Maine, USA .... Smith and Wesson -- the original "Point & Click" interface. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.40 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .