Drafts group loses special property

Drafts group loses special property

[Florian Weimer]

gnus-draft.el is not even loaded, and the group appears ss if it were
an ordinary mail group.

How can I fix this?

Re: Drafts group loses special property

[Simon Josefsson]

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.

Re: Drafts group loses special property

[Florian Weimer]

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

Re: Drafts group loses special property

[Simon Josefsson]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> 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?

I tried to reword it to make it more general, so that the information
in the manual is useful even when the bug has been fixed.  Now added,
thanks for suggesting it.

Index: gnus.texi
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/texi/gnus.texi,v
retrieving revision 6.450
diff -u -p -r6.450 gnus.texi
--- gnus.texi	22 Mar 2003 00:52:52 -0000	6.450
+++ gnus.texi	22 Mar 2003 17:04:26 -0000
@@ -11561,7 +11561,13 @@ read---all articles in the group are per
 
 If the group doesn't exist, it will be created and you'll be subscribed
 to it.  The only way to make it disappear from the Group buffer is to
-unsubscribe it.
+unsubscribe it.  The special properties of the draft group comes from
+a group property (@pxref{Group Parameters}), and if lost the group
+behaves like any other group.  This means the commands below will not
+be available.  To restore the special properties of the group, the
+simplest way is to kill the group, using @kbd{C-k}, and restart
+Gnus.  The group is automatically created again with the
+correct parameters.  The content of the group is not lost.
 
 @c @findex gnus-dissociate-buffer-from-draft
 @c @kindex C-c M-d (Mail)