[Alpine-info] change roles after composing?

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:


>> Any updates on this since then? Is it possible to change the role for an 

>> already existing draft? How does alpine determine the role to use for a 

>> draft created in another e-mail client and then saved in an IMAP-server's 

>> drafts mailbox?

>

> No, no changes. It is not possible to change later. All the role does is 

> it sets the initial values of the various fields that it sets like the 

> From or whatever you have defined. After that the message is the same as 

> any other, there is no memory of it being from a role. The only time a 

> role can be used is at the time a new message is being created.


I've occasionally edited individual emails in my postponed-msgs folder 
on-disk on the server, on the rare occasion that doing that is easier than 
recreating the message I'm composing. (Then I delete my 
~/Maildir/.postponed-msgs/dovecot.index.cache file.) The most annoying one 
for me is setting the SMTP server when I've used the wrong role. Anything 
else I usually change/need is editable in the UI (From:, Fcc:, Bcc:, 
etc.).

Best,
Ben