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Started by Avery Wang
Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:04
Mail.app bug--beware
Author: 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
Re: Mail.app bug--beware
Author: Stefano Pagiola
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:46
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...) -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Re: Mail.app bug--beware
Author: Bill Burcham
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:34
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:34
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In article <1992Nov21.180407.8018@leland.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang) writes: [munch] > 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. [munch] > 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 Oh! So that's what happened to me yesterday -- just verifying Avery's results. I am sending this to bugs@next.com. -- +--------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Bill Burcham | "Make no small plans; they have | | First National Bank of Chicago | no magic to stir men's souls" | | billb@fnbc.com (NeXTmail) | Daniel J. Burnham | +--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
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