[X Newbies] Disappearing subject line in Sent Mail?

[TheMacintoshLady]

Steve St-Laurent tapped out this message on 8/13/2003 10:39 AM 

>Norman Cohen <nacohen at mac.com> wrote:
>> Sorry. You can. I just dragged and dropped into the To: field, the
>> Subject: field, etc. Running 10.2.6 and Mail 1.2.5.
>>
>> Norm
>> On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 08:45  AM, Steve St-Laurent wrote:
>>
>>> Yup. Known problem. You can't drag to the subject area in Mail. Seen
>>> it many times. First reported on Macintouch about a half-year ago.
>
>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.

I have not tried it from text in say, BBE but it definitely leaves me 
subject-less when I use a text CLIPPING. Clippings do not work as well as 
they do in 9, nor does drag and drop.