From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50977 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Drafts group loses special property Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:25:47 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874r5vfjw4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <87d6kjflsy.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048350385 12746 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 16:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sat Mar 22 17:26:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wlp9-0003JK-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18wloq-0006XG-00; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:26:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:27:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA20298 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:26:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 92555 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2003 16:25:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 92550 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2003 16:25:48 -0000 Original-Received: from cygnus-ext.enyo.de (HELO mail.enyo.de) (212.9.189.162) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 16:25:48 -0000 Original-Received: from [212.9.189.171] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 18wloZ-00059G-00 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:25:47 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 3.34 #4) id 18wloZ-0001JG-00 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:25:47 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:15:12 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50977 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50977 Simon Josefsson writes: > Florian Weimer 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