Sometimes, you might want to interrupt the composing of a message and continue it later. This is called postponing. The add-on called ‘vm-pine’ provides this functionality.
In a message composition buffer, the command C-c C-d
(vm-postpone-composition)
postpones the current composition. The postponed message is stored in the
folder specified in vm-postponed-folder. (The default is a folder
called “postponed”). When called with a prefix argument,
vm-postpone-composition will ask you for the folder to save the draft
to. You might also save it to your inbox in this way.
You can continue composing the postponed messages by visiting
vm-postponed-folder, selecting a message and running M-x
vm-continue-postponed-message. This constructs a new message composition
buffer by copying the text from the VM Presentation buffer. It also
converts any MIME buttons into attachment buttons, which will be encoded as
valid MIME attachments when the message is sent. Unfortunately, any
attachments that are displayed inline in the Presentation buffer will not be
encoded. This is a limitation of this package.
(This add-on was provided by Robert Fenk.)