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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?

This is the kind of functionality that belongs in saveconf.el.  Perhaps it
is in Dirk Grunwald's enhanced saveconf or Bob Weiner's em-config.

-- 
Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@uswest.com>