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

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> Even though during testing I accumulated over a dozen drafts of the
>> same content.
>>
>> Why is Gnus doing this?
>
> Hard to say.  Do you have a step-by-step recipe to reproduce the problem?

Yes:

In ~/.authinfo commenting out the smtp server part.  Then

emacs -Q

GNU Emacs 28.0.60 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2021-10-19

(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
      smtpmail-smtp-service  587 ; 2018-03-05 465 for ssl;  587 for starttls; 
1&1: 587 and 465
      smtpmail-smtp-user "dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de"
      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.1und1.de")

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.io")
      gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '(
        (nnimap "1und1"
                (nnimap-address "imap.1und1.de")
                                        ;(nnimap-server-port "143") ;starttls
                )             
        (nnmbox "")
        ))

M-x gnus (I'm able to read the news).

Starting a message buffer (with m) and saving it with C-x C-s.

Went to the nndraft:drafts summary and typed Ds over the draft:

------------------------------
Sending message 1 of 1...
Sending via mail...
smtpmail-send-it: Sending failed: 550-Requested action not taken: mailbox 
unavailable
550 Authentication required
------------------------------

At this stage I'm closing Emacs with C-x C-c.

Emacs is asking me if I want to save the draft (which was saved before,
has it changed?), I refuse with typing n.

Emacs is shutting down.

After reopening Emacs I've got my additional clone of the draft.

Hope that helps and thanks for your interest

     Dieter