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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Drafts group loses special property
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:25:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874r5vfjw4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu8yv7xtrj.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:15:12 +0100")

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
>> gnus-draft.el is not even loaded, and the group appears ss if it were
>> an ordinary mail group.
>>
>> How can I fix this?
>
> C-k and restart?  G p on the group should include (gnus-dummy
> (gnus-draft-mode)).  If you can reproduce how the group parameter is
> lost, it would be good.  Seems like people see this from time to time.

Thanks, C-k fixes it.  I have no idea what has happened.  It might be
an artifact remaining from a major confusion in which Gnus subscribed
all NNTP groups as nnml mail groups. 8-(

Maybe we should apply the following documentation patch, although it
is a bit embarrassing?

--- gnus.texi.~6.450.~	Sat Mar 22 16:40:30 2003
+++ gnus.texi	Sat Mar 22 17:23:56 2003
@@ -11608,6 +11608,10 @@
 @kbd{D t} (@code{gnus-draft-toggle-sending}) command to mark the message
 as unsendable.  This is a toggling command.
 
+Occasionally, the draft group loses its special properties.  In this
+case kill the group in the Groups buffer, using @kbd{C-k}, and restart
+Gnus.  The group is automatically created again with the correct
+parameters.
 
 @node Rejected Articles
 @section Rejected Articles



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-22 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-22 15:44 Florian Weimer
2003-03-22 16:15 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-22 16:25   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2003-03-22 17:06     ` Simon Josefsson

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