Re: [sgnus-0.89] compose two messages simultaneously?

["Sudish Joseph" <sudish@VNET.IBM.COM>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu> writes:
>       If I remember correctly, VM names the buffer something like
> *reply to somebody@somewhere* (I don't remember whether it has leading

I find this a very useful feature, too.  VM's naming convention for
old messages ("sent mail to ..." "resent mail to..." etc.) is very
intuitive and saves you the bother of thinking up a reasonable name
while using rename uniquely.

This is trivial to add, but I dunno how it will go over.  I was going
to add it to sendmail.el a long time back and stopped on seeing that
code that did something similar was already there in sendmail.el.
Here's the comment that accompanied the code:

;;; This is commented out because I found it was confusing in practice.
;;; It is easy enough to rename *mail* by hand with rename-buffer
;;; if you want to have multiple mail buffers.
;;; And then you can control which messages to save. --rms.

This was probably because the old code doesn't cleanup/reuse old
buffers (unlike VM).

>       but then, I guess it could leave people with zillions of
>  unkilled buffers (I don't seem to notice them building up, really)

VM lets you specify how many old buffers you wish to retain; it keeps
a list of all buffers it created and recycles the very oldest one when
it needs a new mail composition buffer.

-Sudish