Hello All,
I've been maintaining a Windows 2000 system for some time because one
element of OE works a bit differently in 2000 than in XP, and that
difference has been very useful to me.

I now have to replace that 2000 system (due to hardware failure) and am
wondering if anyone knows how to replicate this particular behaviour under
Windows 2000, in XP.

Here's what it is:

In an ordinary work day, I have to send an email notification to one person
then another that a file has been uploaded to a particular FTP folder.

In Windows 2000, an email message can be saved to the desktop or any other
folder, and function as kind of a permanent draft template. It can be
saved to the folder, and opened, edited and sent. So I will have two
eml files on the desktop, one to each person, and just have to open the
mail, change the FTP folder name. I send the mail, and the eml file is
still there for the next time.

In XP, doing the same thing results in a read-only message being saved, and
it can't be edited OR sent. I can only use drafts in the Drafts folder,
and the draft exists only until I click Send.

In XP I have to create a complete new message for each notification, and
there could be sixty over a day. So there is a time saving if I can get it
to work as with Windows 2000.

If there is no way to get OE to do this, I'd be glad to hear of other mail
clients that do work this way.


Thanks!
Patrick Keenan