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MH-DRAFT(7)			   [mmh-0.4]			   MH-DRAFT(7)

NAME
       mh-draft	- draft	folder facility	for mmh

DESCRIPTION
       There  are a number of interesting advanced facilities for the composi-
       tion 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 ex-
       ample, 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
       None

MH.6.8				  2019-01-06			   MH-DRAFT(7)

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