[PATCH 2/2] add edit function to resume postponed emails

[Antoine Beaupré]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:31:31 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
> I think this could be simplified a lot and many of the known issues
> addressed if this were narrowed to *only* resuming from drafts.
> message-mode draft files aren't MIME messages (or, at least, they're
> never multipart, and message-mode has its own special annotations over
> basic RFC 822), so rather than treating the draft as a MIME message
> and trying to transform it back into a message-mode-compatible draft
> (which, in full generality, would be somewhere between hard and
> impossible), what about just dumping the raw contents of the draft
> file into a buffer and pointing message-mode at it?  If the draft file
> is available, you could even open it directly (this wouldn't work for
> remote usage, but remote drafts introduce many other problems, too).

I think this is a great idea. Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble
making message-mode digest an existing buffer. For example, if you take
any existing buffer and call (message-mode) on it, you will notice it
will clear the buffer completely.

I guess I would need to look at how (notmuch-mua-edit-mail) does it but
it was the blocker i had when i tried to figure this out..

Any suggestions?

A.

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