gnus-draft-group? (was: nnfolder: seems broken)

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> On 16 Mar 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > WIBNI if we could do something like: (setq gnus-draft-group
> > "nnfoo:group.name") where nnfoo would be any backend that supports
> > the necessary operations?
> 
> Maybe nnmh has the advantage that you can just drop a file into a
> directory and lo! you have saved a message.
>
> Gnus uses this to ensure
> that auto-saved messages are automatically stored in the draft folder.

I think this could be generalized to any one-file-per-message backend.
When you start composing a message, Gnus would hand it to the backend
via nnfoo-request-accept-article.  Then we'd just have to add an
nnfoo-article-file-name function to the backend interface; Gnus would
use that to find out what file that article is stored in, and
associate the message buffer with that file.  Would that work?


paul