Re: Mail messages not queued properly when unplugged.

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Malcolm Purvis wrote:
> Today I upgraded to the latest version of No Gnus in CVS from a version
> about amonth old.  I'm now getting mail messages being deleted when
> being sent unplugged rather than being queued.

Does it still happen even now?  I tried No Gnus and XEmacs 21.5,
both are the latest, and had no problem.

> The minibuffer messages are:

> Reading active file via nnnil...
> Deleting article /Users/malcolmp/News/drafts/queue/1 in nndraft:drafts...
> Sending...done
> Wrote /Users/malcolmp/News/drafts/queue/1
> Sending via mail...
> Sending...

Wasn't the file name "drafts/drafts/1", not "drafts/queue/1" ?

If so, it looks as if a mail was really sent (probably it failed
in fact because the mail server was unreachable, though).  If it
really happened, I have only one idea of the cause of it.  That
is that the variable `gnus-agent-send-mail-function' has been
set to a non-nil value before Gnus was agentized.  If you have
something like the following snippet in the ~/.gnus.el file,

(setq gnus-agent-send-mail-function message-send-mail-function)
...[1]

the `message-send-mail-real-function' variable will not be set to
`gnus-agent-send-mail':

(defun gnus-agentize ()
[...]
  (unless gnus-agent-send-mail-function
    (setq gnus-agent-send-mail-function
	  (or message-send-mail-real-function
	      (function (lambda () (funcall message-send-mail-function))))
	  message-send-mail-real-function 'gnus-agent-send-mail))

So what's the value of `message-send-mail-real-function' in your
XEmacs?  It should be `gnus-agent-send-mail' if Gnus is agentized.
If it is left nil that is the default, Message will always use
the value of `message-send-mail-function':

(defun message-send-mail (&optional arg)
[...]
		(funcall (or message-send-mail-real-function
			     message-send-mail-function)))


[1] I actually have it in my ~/.gnus.el file, though I don't
    recall why I did so.  My pc is always connected to the net,
    so I can send mails regardless of the plugged state of Gnus.