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Article #3979Mail.app bug--beware
From: Avery Wang
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:04
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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang) Subject: Mail.app bug--beware Message-ID: <1992Nov21.180407.8018@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 18:04:07 GMT Lines: 29