There was an update some while back that changed templates to appear as
being read and your options were only Forward or Reply. Assuming the XP
machine is otherwise up to date, you just have to give the registry a little
nudge to get things back to normal.

To complete the fix for .eml templates, a registry change is needed. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918766

Or do it the easy way.

Tom Koch also has this information at his site, along with a downloadable
Zip file to do the registry change for you. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/#kb918651
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Patrick Keenan" wrote in message
...
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