Re: Gnus drafts setup issues

Martin Kjær Jørgensen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/12/26 15:36 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Martin Kjær Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> See if there is anything in the drafts directory (should be empty if you
>>> don't have drafts).
>>>
>>
>> Draft directory is empty of text files, but does contain another 'drafts'
>> directory:
>>
>> .emacs.d/gnus/
>> └── news
>>     └── drafts
>>         ├── drafts  <-- 
>>         └── queue
>>
>> describe-variable nndraft-directory shows:
>>
>> nndraft-directory is a variable defined in ‘nndraft.el’.
>>
>> Its value is "/home/mkj/.emacs.d/gnus/news/drafts/"
>
> Yeah, my drafts directory also contain those subdirectories, I was
> confused by the contents of drafts/drafts (which must be empty if you
> don't have any ongoing drafts.)
>
> The value of nndraft-directory is non-standard, so your install must
> have at least one of gnus-home-directory, gnus-directory or the SAVEDIR
> environment variable set. What's your full gnus config? And on which
> file are those settings? (Please note that .gnus.el is not the right one
> for the variables mentioned above.)

I am not using .gnus.el so that file shouldn't be a problem.

>
> Really, the best way to address this issue is to step through the draft
> creation code with the debugger, but not all users are eager to
> experience such level of excitement.
>

Neither have I got the time for such an adventure now :-)

Good news, though. In the meantime I have cleaned out my init.el including the
gnus/message-mode area, and it seems the cleaning did the trick. nndraft now
correctly saves the draft mails as numbered files in drafts/drafts/ . I'm not
sure why this happened all of a sudden. Perhaps I got close to Emacs
bankruptcy...

A part of me whats to find the culprit, another part of me just want to forget
it.
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