[mu4e] Resuming editing of a draft

[p4bl0]

Hello,

Surprisingly, it's the first time in a few month of mu4e usage that I need to do this, and I really can't find how.

I saved a mail while editing it to go look for another email to verify some of the information I was writing about in the email I was composing. Now I want to reopen that draft email (which is present in my draft folder), continue editing it and then send it. How can I do that?

It seems to be a very normal operation so I can't imagine that it's not possible, yet I can't find how to do it.

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Go to the message in your draft folder and press 'E'. This is actually
mentioned in the manual...

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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[Pablo Rauzy]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
<dj...@djcbsoftware.nl> wrote:
>
> On 2012-08-27 22:17, p4bl0 wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > Surprisingly, it's the first time in a few month of mu4e usage that I need
> > to do this, and I really can't find how.
>
> > I saved a mail while editing it to go look for another email to verify some
> > of the information I was writing about in the email I was composing. Now I
> > want to reopen that draft email (which is present in my draft folder),
> > continue editing it and then send it. How can I do that?
>
> > It seems to be a very normal operation so I can't imagine that it's not
> > possible, yet I can't find how to do it.
>
> Go to the message in your draft folder and press 'E'. This is actually
> mentioned in the manual...

I googled for "inurl:http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e draft"
but didn't see it, and now that I did it again since you tell that it
actually is in the manual, it seems I just missed it -_-'.

Sorry, and thanks a lot ! :-)

>
> Best wishes,
> Dirk.
>
> --
> Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland
> e:dj...@djcbsoftware.nl w:www.djcbsoftware.nl
> pgp: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C

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[Gustavo]

On Monday, August 27, 2012 at 8:33:59 PM UTC+1, djcb wrote:

On 2012-08-27 22:17, p4bl0 wrote:

 > I saved a mail while editing it to go look for another email to verify some
 > of the information I was writing about in the email I was composing. Now I
 > want to reopen that draft email (which is present in my draft folder),
 > continue editing it and then send it. How can I do that?

Go to the message in your draft folder and press 'E'. This is actually
mentioned in the manual...

Hello. I too had this doubt. But when I try to edit a draft I get the following messages:

  error in process filter: mu4e-error: [mu4e] failed to determine drafts folder
  error in process filter: [mu4e] failed to determine drafts folder

I have mu4e-drafts-folder set correctly, and mu4e saved the draft file in the correct place. What may be happening?

--
Gustavo

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

For re-editing drafts, mu4e tries to figure out the drafts folder when
the draft was first created -- which is not necessarily that same as the
current drafts folder. So I suspect in your case that doesn't work for
some reason...

I've pushed a change for this -- can you try if that works? If not,
please file an issue on github, with some detail with respect to your
mu4e-maildir, mu4e-draft-folder.

Kind regards,

[Gustavo]

 

For re-editing drafts, mu4e tries to figure out the drafts folder when
the draft was first created -- which is not necessarily that same as the
current drafts folder. So I suspect in your case that doesn't work for
some reason...

I don't think I would complain if mu4e would look for drafts only in the current draft folders.
Would this behaviour address some issue I am not thinking of?
 

I've pushed a change for this -- can you try if that works? If not,
please file an issue on github, with some detail with respect to your
mu4e-maildir, mu4e-draft-folder.

It solved the problem I faced. Thank you so very much, Dirk!

I have no idea what caused this problem. I hope it was not a problem with my config.

I also noticed that mu4e was not deleting the drafts when sending the messages. This also seems to be working now.

--
Gustavo

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

On Sunday Jul 03 2016, Gustavo wrote:

>
>
>> For re-editing drafts, mu4e tries to figure out the drafts folder when
>> the draft was first created -- which is not necessarily that same as the
>> current drafts folder. So I suspect in your case that doesn't work for
>> some reason...
>>
>
> I don't think I would complain if mu4e would look for drafts only in the
> current draft folders.
> Would this behaviour address some issue I am not thinking of?

Well, some people have multiple draft folders (and note that the folder
might be dynamic), so we have to make a guess. And that usually works.

>> I've pushed a change for this -- can you try if that works? If not,
>> please file an issue on github, with some detail with respect to your
>> mu4e-maildir, mu4e-draft-folder.
>>
>
> It solved the problem I faced. Thank you so very much, Dirk!
>
> I have no idea what caused this problem. I hope it was not a problem with
> my config.
>
> I also noticed that mu4e was not deleting the drafts when sending the
> messages. This also seems to be working now.

Okay, happy to hear that!

Cheers,

[Joost Kremers]

>>> On 2012-08-27 22:17, p4bl0 wrote:
>>>
>>> > I saved a mail while editing it to go look for another email to verify some
>>> > of the information I was writing about in the email I was composing.

You know, I've never found it necessary to save a draft when I want to
check another email for some information. I just open mu4e again, search
for the email (or the mailbox it's in) and display it.

In fact, doing C-x 1 followed by C-x 3 C-o and then M-x mu4e allows you
to see the relevant mail and the one you're composing side by side.


--
Joost Kremers
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