On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:08:55 am Petr Kovar wrote: > Sorry for digging out the old thread, but I think it should be stated > that local folders are in the standard feature set of majority of > modern (offline) newsreaders, and for a reason. Even when the Pan's > expiry implementation issue is non-existent, many people like to make > use of local folders for e.g. (automatically) storing outgoing or > sent messages, drafts, or just to archive a certain subset of > messages in a hierarchical folder tree. And last, but not least, it's > important to have a convenient way to access these messages from > within a client, just as users are accustomed to when using mail > clients. > > That said, having to remember to manually save articles just before > posting, and then searching for each of them somewhere in the file > system doesn't seem to be a convenient way of dealing with messages.
For what it's worth, I agree with Petr. The removal of the automatically-save-sent-emails functionality was very nearly a deal breaker for me: I've lost a year or two worth of posts, never able to retrieve them, because of that. By the time I learned that Pan was no longer saving my sent posts, they had expired from the news-servers I have access too. I note that the Pan home page still falsely claims that: "Pan saves your posted messages in a folder for future reference." This is incorrect. It does no such thing. You have to manually save posted messages as a DRAFT, before sending, otherwise Pan does not save it. Not to put too fine a point on it, it's ridiculous that a news/mail client (Pan sends email too) doesn't automatically save sent posts. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
