[MlMt] How are Draft emails supposed to be used

[John Doherty]

Hi Henry, I don't have any answers here but will note what I just saw 
when I tried this. It's not something I usually do: I don't write email 
on my phone (or desktop apps other than MailMate, or in webmail) except 
in emergencies, but I was curious about what would happen.

I started a message in the fastmail app on my android phone, saved it as 
a draft, and then looked to see how it would appear and work in 
MailMate.

What I found was that the "Drafts" folder of that account had been taken 
offline in MailMate. I can't be sure it wasn't offline before but I 
seriously doubt it.

I was about to say that even after bringing it back online and manually 
syncing the account, the draft still wasn't visible in MailMate at all, 
but now, after several minutes, it is. I don't know what took so long or 
why the drafts folder was taken offline (if that really did happen).

But now that I can see it, I can open and edit it normally. I just did 
open it, added a couple more lines to it, and sent it (to myself) with 
MailMate. Everything worked fine.

Then I created another draft message using K-9 Mail and my work (gmail) 
account on my phone. The draft message appeared in the drafts folder of 
that account in MailMate pretty much immediately but when I open it in 
MailMate by double-clicking it, I can't edit it.

If I then try to send it, it gets opened in a new window in which I can 
edit it and then send it normally, as if I had chosen "Edit as new 
message...".

After I do send that, the original draft is left in the drafts folder, 
the (edited and) sent message appears in the sent folder, and the two 
messages have different message IDs. So I think when I tried to send it 
the first time, it really was effectively opened as a new message.

So... how does saving a message as a draft in one app and then trying to 
work with that draft in MailMate work? Based on what I just saw, I'd say 
"not really all that well, at least not for me."

I don't know where the blame for any of this lies. My fastmail and gmail 
accounts work differently and neither seems to work in the way I would 
hope. Also don't know if things would have worked any better with a 
desktop app other than MailMate: I don't have one configured to try.

On Thu 2023-04-27 11:07 AM MDT -0600, <info at techworkspro.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I have question about Draft emails in M-M v 1.14 Test Build 5964 and 
> possibly earlier editions.
>
> How does an email in the drafts folder (whether put there from another 
> app like Mail, E.G., started from an iPad or iPhone or Mail on another 
> computer) or from within M-M supposed to opened for editing.
>
> Have found strange behavior of late with email started elsewhere.
>
> Even this one… Started this in M-M and used the Save Command to save 
> it (defaults to the Drafts Folder). I took this Draft and opened it 
> Mail. It retains its HTM formatting since Mail respects that as 
> opposed to text-based. I added the preceding line…

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freron.com/pipermail/mailmate/attachments/20230427/1d948e27/attachment.htm>