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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' pro-
     file 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 num-
     ber.  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 sin-
     gle 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
     None

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

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