Perhaps having the message disappear when being sent is not a bug but a feature. Maybe the idea is to prevent users modifying the message when it’s in the unpredictable state between “drafted” and “sent”.

If you were able to make modifications while the message was in transit how could you be sure that the changes were the ones that actually made it to its recipient? Now add to the problem by asking what happens if the message fails to send after you made edits.

“… I remember that there was a way of storing the “sent emails” in the same folder from which I am replying.”

IIRC, Eudora has an option for this. Unfortunately, that means you’re out of luck, because Qualcomm has announced it is discontinuing Eudora.

Some of the functionality Eudora had will survive in the form of an “extension” to Mozilla’s Thunderbird that’s being written by ex-Eudora programmers, but I don’t know whether that will include the feature you recalled there:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope

Mail is a great app, and like others posted here, I didn’t get anything out of Pierre’s whinging….

Now, the fact that a static mailbox name changes from “Sent” to “Sending…” is just great. I really can’t see why this is “ugly”. What could be more intuitive than placing such a message right where you can see it and not using any valuable extra space somewhere else, where you are likely not to look for it anyway?

The only problem is that when you click on it, it doesn’t actually show you that one message. Although I think this really is a minor problem, maybe the outbox could appear as a subsidary of the “Sent” mailbox, just as the different mailboxes of different accounts appear. Or the mail being send appears in that “Sent” mailbox with some kind of color label.

Yes, there is room for improvement on this issue, but the propositions that blog author makes wouldn’t fit my idea of intuitive Mac use at all.