Outgoing message timestamped draft buffer opened, not when sent

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

I just finished a 20-minute email drafting, and noticed the email was timestamped when the draft buffer was opened, not when the completed message was finally sent.

Is this configurable to have the opposite behavior?

Jeff

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Now it is.... I've added
mu4e-compose-auto-include-date
(disabled by default).

So, the new default behavior is to _not_ add the date immediately, but
can be set to do so anyway.

(a slightly better solution would be to also add a date when saving the
draft... but that's for some future patch).

Cheers,
Dirk.

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[Antoine Levitt]

Hi,

Sorry for re-opening this old thread, but this has bugged me recently, so I opted to update the timestamp each time I save the draft, which I believe makes the most sense. Here's my rudimentary code, if anyone's interested.

(add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook

          (lambda ()

            (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'mu4e~draft-update-date nil t)))

(defun mu4e~draft-update-date ()

  (save-excursion

    (message-position-on-field "Date")

    (message-beginning-of-line)

    (kill-line)

    (insert (message-make-date))))

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 6:14:10 AM UTC-7, djcb wrote:

On Thursday Aug 28 2014, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:

> I just finished a 20-minute email drafting, and noticed the email was
> timestamped when the draft buffer was opened, not when the completed
> message was finally sent.
>
> Is this configurable to have the opposite behavior?

Now it is.... I've added
  mu4e-compose-auto-include-date
(disabled by default).

So, the new default behavior is to _not_ add the date immediately, but
can be set to do so anyway.

(a slightly better solution would be to also add a date when saving the
draft... but that's for some future patch).

Cheers,
Dirk.

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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland

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