problems using the draft folder

problems using the draft folder

[Dan Christensen]

I just installed QGnus 0.12.  I use emacs 19.34.1.  The first thing I
did was to try out the drafts mechanism.  I composed a mail message,
hit `C-x s', then killed the *reply to ...* buffer with `C-c C-k'.
The draft appeared in my nndraft:drafts group, and I could view the
contents of the draft as I view any other article.  Next what I did
was `D e' followed by `C-c C-k'.  After this I couldn't do either 
`D e' or `D s'.  They gave an error, and here's a backtrace:

Signaling: (error "Couldn't restore the article")
  signal(error ("Couldn't restore the article"))
  error("Couldn't restore the article")
  gnus-draft-setup(2 "nndraft:drafts")
  gnus-draft-edit-message()
  call-interactively(gnus-draft-edit-message)

The backtrace for `D s' is similar.

After this the draft entry in the cache's active file got mixed up.
(It took me a long time to figure out that the information on the
draft group was stored in the cache's active file.  Is there some
logic here I'm missing?)  I can start from scratch and this problem
is repeatable.

If I do `D s' without doing `D e' `C-c C-k' beforehand, the message
gets sent properly.  But I'm imagining a scenario where I compose
a message, save it to think a bit, start doing more editing,
save it to ponder some more, and then try to do the final editing.

Any idea what's up?

Dan

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Dan Christensen
jdc@math.jhu.edu

Re: problems using the draft folder

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

jdc@math.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) writes:

> I just installed QGnus 0.12.  I use emacs 19.34.1.  The first thing I
> did was to try out the drafts mechanism.  I composed a mail message,
> hit `C-x s', then killed the *reply to ...* buffer with `C-c C-k'.
> The draft appeared in my nndraft:drafts group, and I could view the
> contents of the draft as I view any other article.  Next what I did
> was `D e' followed by `C-c C-k'.  After this I couldn't do either 
> `D e' or `D s'.  They gave an error, and here's a backtrace:
> 
> Signaling: (error "Couldn't restore the article")

The `D e' deleted the previous instance of the article, so if you try
to select it after `D e' and `C-c C-k' (or whatever), you can't.  The
message is still in the drafts group, though, but it has changed
number.

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