Cannot edit or send draft messages

[Michael Uplawski]

Mutt 2.5.22 (2013-10-16)
System: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (x86_64)

Good morning,

neither when I hit 'm' in the index, then choose a message from drafts,
nor, after starting mutt with the '-p' argument, can I alter a message.
It makes no difference if one or more than one messages are present in
the drafts-folder.

They may be listed, but the Return-key keeps returning me to the index,
or quits the program if I had used the '-p' argument.

So, drafts are there, the right folder is opened, the right messages are
proposed, but that's it.

I am quite sure, that I am missing something, there do not appear to be
(many) bugs filed that concerned the postpone-mode in Mutt, or I have
overlooked these as well...

Just point me to the crucial part of information. The FAQ does not help
in this case.

Thank you,

Michael.

[Michael Uplawski]

Mutt 2.5.22 (2013-10-16)
System: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (x86_64)

Additional information :

Am Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:27:44 +0000 schrieb Michael Uplawski (me) :

> neither when I hit 'm' in the index, then choose a message from drafts,
> nor, after starting mutt with the '-p' argument, can I alter a message.
> It makes no difference if one or more than one messages are present in
> the drafts-folder.

Resend does not work either, I tried to bind the function to unallocated
keys different from te standard, in pager and index. Although the binding
appears to be taken into account, the function does nothing.

As I have compiled my version of mutt from source, I wonder now, if both
functions depend on a compiler-switch that I am unaware of.

TIA,

Michael.

[Michael Uplawski]

Good evening,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:54:57 +0000 (UTC), Roger Bell_West
<roger+c...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> Are you still able to edit messages elsewhere in mutt?

Thank you for asking.

The 'e' key opens any message, received, sent or postponed, from any
folder in the editor and lets me modify it, whatever that may be good
for.

> ls -l ~/postponed

My folder is ~/Mail/drafts and it is currently empty :

user@machine:~$ ls -l Mail/drafts
-rw------- 1 user user 0 Mär 5 21:34 Mail/drafts

------ .muttrc ----
set folder="~/Mail"
set postponed="+drafts"
------------------

Cheerio,

Michael

[Michael Uplawski]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 07:27:44 +0000 (UTC),
Michael Uplawski <michael....@uplawski.eu> wrote:
> Mutt 2.5.22 (2013-10-16)
> System: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (x86_64)

Looking for a solution to a different malfunction, I stumbled over the
debian 1.5.22-1 patches, applied some (0011, 0020, 0025, 0030) and
re-compiled mutt. Without me being aware of any connection between those
patches and the postpone-mode, I have to admit, that my draft-messages
are now correctly loaded into an editor and sent, even after choosing
one of several postponed messages.

The configure-options have not changed since the last time:

'--enable-pop' '--enable-smtp' '--enable-mailtool'
'--with-curses=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-regex' '--with-gnutls'
'--with-included-gettext' '--with-sasl'

Have a good time, all,

Michael

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

Followup question: what's your mutt-tmpdir? is it, maybe, overly full?

-is

[Michael Uplawski]

Good morning

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:19:06 +0100,
Ignatios Souvatzis <u50...@beverly.kleinbus.org> wrote:

> Followup question: what's your mutt-tmpdir? is it, maybe, overly full?

No, I can exclude this possibility. Also, as I have written in my
follow-up <slrnlhh3fa.lrp....@drusus.uplawski.eu>,
draft-messages can be selected, modified and sent as intended after I
have recompiled Mutt with some of the 2.5.22-1 patches available from
Debian (the message subject and text contains a faulty version number
1.5.22-1, but this news-server does not allow supersedes).

Thanks for asking, though.

Michael