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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> One main point of the drafts group is autosave crash recovery, and to
> do that, we have to use the Emacs autosave facility, which rules
> exotic features like storing drafts on an IMAP server, for instance.

Yup. The Agent also seem to rely on a (local) nndraft for storing it's
queued articles.

However, nndraft is not only used internally by gnus (autosave stuff,
agent etc) but also by users, and users could want to have their
drafts in another backend. Perhaps one could have two draft
mechanisms...