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Boris 'codetermine' Goldowsky writes:
 > One nice, related feature would be the ability to save a message with some
 > indication (ie, a .msg suffix) that tells emacs that it is a
 > partially-completed message and should therefore be edited in mail-mode.
 > Unsent mail buffers should, by the same token, be associated with files so
 > that if you exit emacs you are given the option of saving them for
 > completion later.  Similar tactics could be used to pick up a dead.letter
 > for fixing and sending.
 > 
 > I use a mail-mode-hook and auto-mode-alist that accomplish the above---if I
 > exit with modified but un-sent messages, it asks me whether to save them in
 > ~/mail/username.msg, and when these files are visited they are in
 > mail-mode, ready to be sent with C-c C-c.  The code is embarrassingly
 > kludgy, though, so I will not post it :-) It could be much cleaner if it
 > were incorporated into VM itself... or am I the only one who ever leaves a
 > message unfinished overnight?

I think it would be better to append such messages to dead.letter
iun such a way that dead.letter could be visited and you could
continue editing the message.

 > On a related note, I would also enjoy seeing folders that, when visited,
 > can put themselves in the correct mode, so I can use C-x C-f to visit
 > folders as well as other files.

In version 5 of VM, you can use vm-mode in auto-mode-alist just
like any other major mode.

  ...
  ("~/mail/" . vm-mode)
  ...