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Package:           kmail
Version:           1.2 (using KDE 2.1.1 )
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Debian Package 4:2.1.1-9 (testing/unstable)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)
OS:                Linux 2.4.4-pre3 i686
OS/Compiler notes: 

I know it's cheeky (two wishlist requests in
two days) but I've just switched to KMail
and these things tend to strike you all at
once.

I think the aesthetics of launching an
external editor are a bit odd at the moment;
a slightly better approach might be to have
composer launch in a special "external editor"
mode which only has the dialog for selecting
identity and subject/to/cc etc while at the
same time the external editor starts up with
the text.  KNode could benefit from this
approach too I think.

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