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   Message 914 of 3,070   
   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   [WinPoint] Templates annoyance   
   28 Apr 19 09:18:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet d7d9cfc7   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.59 66af4717   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.38 (Linux) (x86_64)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   Hello August!   
      
   On 27.04.19 at 19:50, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    MF>> It would appear that the message templates are only applied to echomail   
    MF>> messages, none of them are applied to netmail messages.   
      
    MF>> Anyone else seeing this behaviour?   
      
    AA> Yep.  If a Reply-in-Netmail were to be triggered from an echo, it would   
    AA> be nice if there was a header that included the name of the originating   
    AA> echo, for example.   
      
   Yes it would.   
      
    AA> In addition, a predefined signature also does not carry into a direct   
    AA> Reply-in-Netmail.  :(   
      
   That's correct.   
      
    AA> Two more CONs.   
      
   Possibly.   
      
    AA> Two bad we can't even Reply in the echo (utilizing the templates) and   
    AA> then change the Area in the header.   
      
   Hey, that's a brilliant idea, just tried it and .....   
      
    AA> Once the reply is started in the echo, it is locked for that Area   
    AA> (the Area drop-down is grey-out).   
      
   ..... it's *not* greyed out here :-)   
      
   However, there could be a problem when using that method for a *new*     
   netmail: there's a kludge in the message header that shouldn't be     
   there.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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