Re: Mail.app bug--beware

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From: Stefano Pagiola
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:46

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Avery Wang writes
> 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).... 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!!! This is really
> annoying because I lost 2 long, important, and complicated email
> messages that way before I finally realized what was happening.
> 

This is a long-known bug; there was considerable discussion of it  
when NG first came out.  But of course any new users wouldn't be  
aware of it.  Perhaps a prominent warning could be added to NG's  
README file in the archives?  (Not that anyone actually reads  
them...)

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Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)

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