Re: [Pan-users] locking messages

[Duncan]

On Tue 29 Jul 2003 04:42, ar posted as excerpted below:
> I'd like propose a feature (if it is not already there).
>
> Coming from Forte Agent there is the ability to mark a message with a lock
> so that it can't be deleted and remains permanently in the displayed list
> of messages for a group (until the lock is removed).
>
> Makes it easier to track threads one is interested in. I am using watch
> thread but they still seem to disappear if there aren't any updates to it.

That would be a feature that'd come in handy here, as well..  I'll often mark 
a message unread, to reply to later when I have the energy to parse it 
properly and reply with the depth and research it deserves.  However, they 
occasionally disappear b4 I get to them, and/or I mistakenly view them and 
forget to mark them unread again, so they get lost in the mass of read 
messages..  Having the message lock feature would be a very useful way to 
avoid this problem.

I've seen others use it for archiving messages of interest they don't want to 
lose.  However, I prefer to mail those to myself, keeping everything of that 
nature in one place in my mail client, which is designed to keep messages 
around in archives, while PAN isn't..  (Also.. since I'm usually running 
closer to bleeding edge beta and am considering switching to CVS if I can 
make it work, with PAN, that's not the best environment for permanent storage 
of messages!  <g>)

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