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James Ladan  
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 More options Mar 29 2012, 1:56 pm
From: James Ladan <ja...@ladan.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:56:24 -0700
Local: Thurs, Mar 29 2012 1:56 pm
Subject: Re: mu4e: cancelled drafts not removed
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:08, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <d...@djcbsoftware.nl> wrote:

>> Hmm. I still seem to have the problem after updating, installing, and
>> restarting emacs.

> Mmmmm... can you check what's in the backtrace ('mu4e-debug' etc.) this
> time?

I didn't include it because it looked the same as last time. I should
have said that explicitly.

2012-03-29 10:32:05 -> sent
/home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120329-3c3a11ec33b7e1422ed.malbec:2,D
/Drafts
2012-03-29 10:32:05 * Received 123 byte(s)
2012-03-29 10:32:05 <- (:error 11 :error-message "failed to add path
'/home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120329-3c3a11ec33b7e1422ed.malbec:2,D'")

>> > > Do you know what the convention is for the "tmp" directory in a
>> > > maildir?  One thought I had was: - begin a draft; work is saved in
>> > > drafts/tmp - send it: move it from drafts/tmp -> sent/cur -
>> > > postpone it: move it from drafts/tmp -> drafts/cur (replacing
>> > > "--text follows this line--" with a blank line) and close the
>> > > buffer

>> > tmp/ is something that mu4e doesn't use, but is specified in the
>> >Maildir standard for safety - basically, a mailserver would write a
>> >message to tmp/ first, and only when it has been written there
>> >correctly, rename it to something in cur/.

>> > See: http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

>> So possibly a legitimate use... Or, since other directories are
>> permitted, maybe drafts/.mu4e?

> Hmm, what would the semantics of drafts/.mu4e/ be?

> Note, you can just create another maildir (e.g. with 'mu mkdir'), say
> "MyDrafts", and set mu4e-drafts-folder to that and simply not sync that
> with Gmail.

My thought was that an email stored in drafts/cur should be
well-formed, since it could be synchronized with an IMAP server -- so
it seems the "--text follows this line--" should not be there.

If an intermediate form of the draft is to be saved which does include
this line, it should go somewhere other than drafts/cur. Hence the
idea that the file would be "drafts/.mu4e/123ABC" so that a C-x C-s
wouldn't save the version with "--text follows this line--" into cur.

Or rather than storing the initial stage of a draft in a different
directory, would it be possible (and simpler) for the file to always
be displayed with the "--text follows this line--" line but not
include that line in the actual contents written to disk?

Again, I would vote for this to be down near the bottom of the list of
priorities, since the work-around is so easy, and at least to me,
syncing drafts isn't all that important.


 
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