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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Mail app question
Date: 18 Feb 2014 05:12:44 GMT
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On 2014-02-18, Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
>
>> When I reply to an e-mail, Mail closes the e-mail to which I am 
>> replying.  There are times I don't want it to do that; is there any way 
>> to stop that behavior?
>
> There must be a way to stop it because it doesn't happen to me.
>
> Let me be more specific.  When I'm reading mail from my inbox and I
> hit reply, my inbox remains the same (displaying the mail I was
> reading) but a new window with the reply opens up on top of my inbox.
>
> So I gather something different happens for you?

I believe he's talking about when you open a message in a separate
window and reply to it, as opposed to viewing a message in the preview
pane and replying to it. The behavior he describes is the way it works
for me when I reply to a message displayed in a separate window.

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