NAME

       mh-draft - draft folder facility for mmh

DESCRIPTION

       There are a number of interesting advanced facilities for the composition of outgoing mail.

   The Draft Folder
       The comp, dist, forw, and repl commands allow you to manipulate various draft messages simultanely

       Draft  messages are created in the draft folder.  (The `Draft-Folder' profile entry may be used to change
       the default draft folder.

       New drafts are created unless the user invokes comp with -use, in which case the current draft is used.

       The last draft message the user was composing is the current message in the draft folder.

       The user can send off whatever drafts desired from the shell using the standard mmh `msgs' convention  to
       the send command:

              send f

       If no `msgs' are given, the current message is used.

       To make all this a bit more clear, here are some examples:

       Any of the commands

            comp
            dist
            forw
            repl

       constructs  the  message  draft in the draft folder using the `b' message number.  Furthermore, they each
       define `c' in this folder to be that message draft.  If the user were to use the  quit  option  at  `What
       now?' level, then later on, if no other draft composition was done, the draft could be sent with simply

            send

       Or, if more editing was required, the draft could be edited with

            comp -use

       Instead,  if  other  drafts  had  been composed in the meantime, so that this message draft was no longer
       known as `c' in the `draft' folder, then the user could scan the folder to see which message draft in the
       folder  should  be  used for editing or sending.  Clever users could even employ a back-quoted pick to do
       the work:

            comp -use `pick +drafts -to nmh-workers`

       or

            send `pick +drafts -to nmh-workers`

       Note that in the comp example, the output from pick must resolve to a single message draft (it  makes  no
       sense  to talk about composing two or more drafts with one invocation of comp).  In contrast, in the send
       example, as many message drafts as desired can appear, since send doesn't  mind  sending  more  than  one
       draft at a time.

       It is important to realize that mmh treats the draft folder like a standard MH folder.

CONTEXT

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