Subj : [WinPoint] Templates annoyance
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sun Apr 28 2019 09:18:00

Hello August!

On 27.04.19 at 19:50, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> It would appear that the message templates are only applied to echomail
 MF>> messages, none of them are applied to netmail messages.

 MF>> Anyone else seeing this behaviour?

 AA> Yep.  If a Reply-in-Netmail were to be triggered from an echo, it would
 AA> be nice if there was a header that included the name of the originating
 AA> echo, for example.

Yes it would.

 AA> In addition, a predefined signature also does not carry into a direct
 AA> Reply-in-Netmail.  :(

That's correct.

 AA> Two more CONs.

Possibly.

 AA> Two bad we can't even Reply in the echo (utilizing the templates) and
 AA> then change the Area in the header.

Hey, that's a brilliant idea, just tried it and .....

 AA> Once the reply is started in the echo, it is locked for that Area
 AA> (the Area drop-down is grey-out).

...... it's *not* greyed out here :-)

However, there could be a problem when using that method for a *new*  
netmail: there's a kludge in the message header that shouldn't be  
there.

Regards,
Martin

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