Q: message editing in ANY FOLDER: which email clients allow it (Windows)
   
All email clients (known to me) allow to edit messages only in ONE  
special folder (named Dratfs, or Outgoing, or like). 
   
I am looking for a client which: ALLOWS MESSAGE 
EDITING IN-PLACE IN ANY FOLDER. 
   
Following clients (I tried them) .. they do not allow this: 
- Netscape 4.7 - Netscape 6 -  Mozilla - Eudora - Pico - MailWarrior - 
- Outlook - Outlook Express -- KDE kmail -- tkrat 
(ask me clarification if you think any of them do). 

  Bonus point 1: if client supports IMAP and supports this 
  feature(edit-in-place) for IMAP folders also 
  Bonus point 2: if client allow CREATION of draft 
  messages directly in ANY FOLDER 
  Bonus point 3: if client exists both for Windows and Unix platforms, 
  and is opensource or freeware (although this is unlikely)
  Bonus point 4: if client is not Outlook with customization
   
Additional explanation: I keep personal records inside 
  email client. I edit those "self-messages" often. 
  To drag message to Drafts, then drag message back every time 
  I need to edit personal message is utterly inconvenient. 

And this question has nothing to do with "forging" or faking messages.

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Request for Question Clarification by rmn-ga on 27 Aug 2002 17:06 PDT

I know that Outlook XP will allow message editing in any folder, and
have provided the instructions for doing so below:

1. Open a message (by double clicking on it) in any folder, right
clicking, and choosing "Edit Message."  2. You can now edit the
message and then close it, at which point Outlook will ask if you want
to save the message.  If you choose "yes," the edited message will
remain in whatever folder it originally was.  3. If you want to move
it to another folder, open the message, right click, and choose "Move
to Folder."

If this answers your question, please let me know, so I may post it as
my answer.  If it does not, I would be happy to conduct further
research on the topic.

-rmn-ga

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Clarification of Question by ia-ga on 29 Aug 2002 00:41 PDT

The software in question shall cost no more than $40.

A different approach which may give you the desired end result is a
method that I use with Eudora for the Mac - but I am assuming that
most other email programs also have a "stationary" / "email template"
feature - with Eudora Mac at least, a full list of stationary is
always just a tab away and is something which you can easily update
and save and which does not get mixed up with your outgoing / draft
emails... Best, Ed

I think the open source program gnus can do all this, but it will
require some configuration.  gnus is a text-based Usenet news reader
that runs within the Emacs editor, it handles messages on mail servers
as well.  As far as I remember, gnus stores messages as plain text,
and the messages can be edited or created with any text editor.

You (or researchers who wish to answer this question) should find the
neccessary details at http://www.gnus.org

Hi there, IA. I use Pegasus Mail (www.pmail.com) which supports a
feature close to what you want. It's called Annotations - any message
you open has the message tab, the raw view (headers and rawtext), and
annotations, where you can annotate the current message. I just tried
it, and it works in both the new messages and deleted messages
folders. I only have a POP/SMTP account though, so can't tell you how
IMAP works.

Good luck searching...

ia...

Or, you could use YeahWrite to keep notes, records,
journals, diaries, to-do lists, email, etc.
It allows you to send any entry, anywhere, as an
email:  http://www.yeahwrite.com/

To the best of my knowledge, Outlook Professional has had this ability
since 97.  I have verified this works on Outlook 2002 (Within the
office XP package)

The only ability I do not have a solution for is to create a draft
message in any folder.  I'm pretty sure this requires dragging.  If
you consider Mac's OS X Unix, then it is available on unix.  Its not
open source.  So thats two, maybe two and a half of the bonus points.

In any event the ability to edit a message can be found in the edit
drop down menu, or a quick keybaord access would be hold down alt and
press 'e' twice.  This will unlock the message and leave the curser
where it currently is in the message.  Then the save option in the
file menu actually does something.

Again, this works on any folder that contains messages.  If your using
exchange server I'm sure some folder permissions would prevent you
from changing items that you should not have the authority to change.

Checking in again, and yes I am still basing this on Eudora for the
Mac, but just recalled that there is a pencil icon on the top left
(actually second from the left - just to the right of the "priority"
icon) of each and every email no matter which folder it is in (other
than the out/draft folder where, of course, it is always editable),
that once clicked, makes all of the text editable, changeable, etc...
Someone who has Windows Eudora may wish to check to see if it has the
same feature...