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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!hd0258!gvh
- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: Mail.app bug--beware
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.201506.2054@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1992Nov21.184644.10331@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:15:06 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Nov21.184644.10331@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
- > 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.
-
- The Mail.app API has been enhanced for 3.0 to avoid this problem (which is
- pretty nice considering that the old one was an undocumented feature) but
- contrary to an amount of previous opinion, apps need to be modified to take
- advantage of it.
-
- I recently obtained the latest version of NewsGrazer (72.3), and I just checked
- to see if this problem has gone away. It hasn't.
-
- Gordon
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