4 .TH MH-DRAFT %manext7% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
6 mh-draft \- draft folder facility for nmh message system
8 There are a number of interesting advanced facilities for the composition of
11 .SS "The Draft Folder"
18 commands allow you to manipulate various draft messages simultanely
20 Draft messages are created in the draft folder.
23 profile entry may be used to change the default draft folder.
25 New drafts are created unless the user invokes
29 in which case the current draft is used.
31 The last draft message
32 the user was composing is the current message in the draft folder.
34 The user can send off whatever drafts desired from the shell using the
37 `msgs' convention to the
40 If no `msgs' are given, it defaults to `c'.
48 To make all this a bit more clear, here are some examples:
62 constructs the message draft in the draft folder using the `b'
63 message number. Furthermore, they each define `c' in this folder to
64 be that message draft. If the user were to use the
66 option at `What now?' level, then later on, if no other draft composition
67 was done, the draft could be sent with simply
75 Or, if more editing was required, the draft could be edited with
83 Instead, if other drafts had been composed in the meantime, so that this
84 message draft was no longer known as `c' in the `draft' folder, then
87 the folder to see which message draft in the
88 folder should be used for editing or sending. Clever users could even
95 comp -use `pick +drafts -to nmh-workers`
103 send `pick +drafts -to nmh-workers`
109 example, the output from
111 must resolve to a single message draft (it makes no sense to talk about
112 composing two or more drafts with one invocation of
116 example, as many message drafts as desired can appear, since
118 doesn't mind sending more than one draft at a time.
120 It is important to realize that
122 treats the draft folder like a standard
124 folder in nearly all respects. There is one exception:
125 Although conceptually
127 deletes the `msgs' named in the draft folder, it does not call
129 to perform the deletion.