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Mail.app bug--beware

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From: Avery Wang
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:04
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Hi-
I'm running 3.0 Golden, NeXTstation color, 20/400+1.1GB external, though I  
think that's irrelevant.

Mail.app has a bug which is easily reproducible and VERY annoying.  When I  
have several compose windows open and use another application, such as  
NewsGrazer or whatever to set up another compose window, (such as what happens  
when I press 'reply' in NewsGrazer), then ALMOST what you expect happens.  You  
get a new compose window in Mail.app, and the appropriate text (i.e. reply  
message, etc) is set up in A compose window.  NOT THE compose window that was  
just newly created though!!!!

What happens is that it takes the first compose window in the list of compose  
windows, and replaces all the text with that of the incoming message from  
Newsgrazer!!!  Even though the correct window is at the END of that list.   
This is really annoying because I lost 2 long, important, and complicated  
email messages that way before I finally realized what was happening.

So the work around is:  Don't have any compose windows under construction if  
you are expecting to have another application set up a compose window for  
you!!!

	Avery Wang
	Rains Apt. #15a
	704 Campus Dr.
	Stanford, CA 94305
	Tel: +1 (415) 497-7213
	Fax: +1 (415) 725-8468
	email: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu
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From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang)
Subject: Mail.app bug--beware
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