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We have a client who we are almost ready to begin a project with.  One of their critiques is that in CiviMail you cannot begin working on a message one day, send out a test mail the next, and then the real mail the day following.  You have to do it all in one go or else you need to create multiple mailings, and just not finish. 

This seems like an good area for us to take on in this project.  Of course we'll be selling this along the lines of "In open source you can improve the application to meet your needs, and submit your changes back to the project.  You also receive the benefit of other organizations submitting their improvements back to the project".

I would think that it would simply be a matter of creating a configuration page for each mailing similar to that of the other components (ex. civicrm/contribute/manage?reset=1&action=update&id=1 ).  And disallow editing after the email has been sent.  Or am I totally off base here?  Is this idea even feasible with the way CiviMail currently works?  How much time would be involved in making this change?

Thanks

Dave Hansen-Lange
Web Developer
Advomatic LLC
http://advomatic.com

Awesome.  I'm adding this to our project outline.

-dave