Re: Gnus accumulating copies of a draft when sending is not possible

["H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Do you by any chance have numbered backup files?  Check the value of
>> the =version-control= variable.

Actually I've always opened a particular file with numbered backups.

> Well - I see the same.  After a failed sending attempt there seems to be
> a modified message buffer, and when exiting Gnus that buffer seems to be
> saved as a new draft each time.  Toggling `version-control' doesn't make
> a difference.
>
> Has anybody actually tried to reproduce???  I just used an address like
> "test" and tried to send.
>
>> Maybe have a look at the contents of the ~/News/drafts/drafts
>> directory?  (or elsewhere if you change the default location)
>
> Doesn't look like numbered backups.  Looks like normal files
> corresponding to the draft copies one sees in Gnus.

Sorry, I don't get "normal files corresponding to the draft copies".  Do
you mean that when closing Emacs then there are "normal" files to be
saved and this has implications to the drafts?

Thank you

      Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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