22.1 Postponing message composition

Sometimes, you might want to interrupt the composing of a message and continue it later. This is called postponing. The add-on called ‘vm-pine’ provides this functionality.

In a message composition buffer, the command C-c C-d (vm-postpone-composition) postpones the current composition. The postponed message is stored in the folder specified in vm-postponed-folder. (The default is a folder called “postponed”). When called with a prefix argument, vm-postpone-composition will ask you for the folder to save the draft to. You might also save it to your inbox in this way.

You can continue composing the postponed messages by visiting vm-postponed-folder, selecting a message and running M-x vm-continue-postponed-message. This constructs a new message composition buffer by copying the text from the VM Presentation buffer. It also converts any MIME buttons into attachment buttons, which will be encoded as valid MIME attachments when the message is sent. Unfortunately, any attachments that are displayed inline in the Presentation buffer will not be encoded. This is a limitation of this package.

(This add-on was provided by Robert Fenk.)