[Pan-users] Re: sent posts??

[Duncan]

Beartooth Sciurivore <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:44:05
+0000:

> In Old Pan, I used to be able to get to copies of posts I had sent,
> which were often useful for a variety of purposes. If there's a file of
> them anywhere in New Pan, I have yet to find it.
> 
>       Is there? Or is it coming back, when Charles gets to it? Or ...?

It's not scheduled back at this time, no.

There were various problems with the old scheme as it required pan to set 
the message-id itself, while most posting clients let the server do it.  
(Pan had to set it itself because it stores messages based on ID, so to 
store posted messages they had to have an ID already.)  There was also 
the issue of being unable to ever see the message as everyone else saw 
it, because once it was posted, pan always showed you the local copy, 
which in the case of stuff you posted, was the copy it took before it hit 
the server.

So Charles just cut that option entirely.  What he put in its place was 
the save draft option.  This isn't automatic, but if you use it, you get 
a copy as a draft, then can reopen it and send it without losing the 
local copy.  (You only lose your draft if you delete the message file pan 
saved.)

One possible workaround would be putting something in the mailto line.  
Since that causes pan to invoke your mail client, you can then save the 
message there, with or without actually sending it.  (You don't have to 
mail a copy to yourself, IOW, just save it once it comes up in your mail 
client, as you would any other mail message before you send it.)

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