Katsumi Yamaoka <[email protected]> writes: hi Katsumi,
> Felix Natter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Katsumi Yamaoka <[email protected]> writes: > [...] >>> I found some other problems on expiring sent drafts to a group. >>> The principal one is that a draft is not like a normal article: >>> >>> ・There is a separator between the header and the body. >>> - You can't read its body in an expiry group. >>> - Xref herder, etc. are put at the end of the body. >>> ・Non-ASCII text has not been encoded properly. >>> ・Attachments do not necessarily exist when re-using it. > >> So the problem is that when I send a draft, its content is subject >> to expiry, and this does not work because a draft is not like >> a normal article (and with the "G c" below we tell Gnus to delete >> and not expire sent drafts)? > > Maybe that a draft is not a normal article is not a direct cause > of your problem. Though I haven't yet investigated why sometimes > it fails with the message "Selecting deleted buffer". > >>> It will cost to improve it. > >> What do you mean by "costs to improve it"? > > Sorry for my funny English. I meant that it will take time (IOW, > cost me time ;-) to improve the Lisp code so as to transform > a draft message, that is copied or moved to a normal group, to > a normal article. Ah ok ;-) > [...] >> Yes, I am doing that: >> (setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnml:expired") > [...] >>> how about setting a group parameter so that only sent drafts >>> are deleted? > [...] >> If that works, then I think it's a good idea to mention this problem >> in the Gnus documentation? > > I have another idea. That is to make the behavior of expiring of > drafts be always `delete' no matter what nnmail-expiry-target is. > It lets you and friends have no need to have such a special group > parameter. Ones who want to have a local copy of a sent message > can use Gcc, that saves it as a normal article. WDYT? That's a really good idea, much better than just documenting a workaround :-) Thanks and Best Regards, -- Felix Natter _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
