[X Newbies] Disappearing subject line in Sent Mail?

[Norman Cohen]

First, from MacintoshLady's original post, I didn't realize that the 
problem wasn't the drag and drop, but the maintenance of the text in 
the Subject field once the message was sent. That is a different issue, 
albeit related somewhat to drag and drop. In fact, as noted below, I 
agree that Mail doesn't maintain the dragged text in the subject field 
when it was placed there by drag and drop.

Second, I certainly wasn't being dismissive. I tried to do what it 
appeared ML was doing and the text dragged and stayed in the subject 
field. I didn't subsequently send the message until later when I 
confirmed the problem. By this point a number of other posts dealing 
with the issue had appeared and it seemed redundant to respond.

If you go back through the archives, you will see that I don't get 
involved in being dismissive about people's posts, I try to help and I 
don't participate in flame wars. I'm a bit offended to be accused of 
doing something of that sort. I've been on this list since the beta 
days and it bothers me how short-fused members of this list have become 
over the past year or so.

Norm
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 07:39  AM, Steve St-Laurent wrote:

> Sorry, Norm, it's NOT that clear-cut:
>
> 1. Blank message window.
>
> 2. Type a couple of words in the message area, making sure not to type 
> a carriage return or any other character that would get blamed.
>
> 3. Highlight and drag to subject line. Heck, drag same from BBEdit 
> with show-invisibles on just to be sure there is no carriage return.
>
> 4. Save as draft, send to yourself, whatever.
>
> 5. I consistently do not get the dragged subject saved, as Macintosh 
> Lady described [OSX 10.2.6/Mail 1.2.5] and have had this problem 
> through every iteration of Mail to date.
>
> There is a problem with this. Being so dismissive really isn't helpful.
Norman Cohen
nacohen at mac.com

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