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

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> Sorry, I don't get "normal files corresponding to the draft copies".  Do
>> you mean that when closing Emacs then there are "normal" files to be
>> saved and this has implications to the drafts?
>
> Did you have a look in the "drafts" directory as had been suggested?

yes indeed

  c:/Users/uidg1626/News/drafts/drafts:
  total used in directory 34 available 72.3 GiB
  drwxrwxrwx  1 uidg1626 Domain Users      0 Oct 16 00:56 ..
  drwxrwxrwx  1 uidg1626 Domain Users     4k Oct 28 08:28 .
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 uidg1626 Domain Users    233 Oct 22 08:33 1
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 uidg1626 Domain Users    267 Oct 22 08:33 3
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 uidg1626 Domain Users    267 Oct 22 08:34 5
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 uidg1626 Domain Users  27.7k Oct 26 08:05 6
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 uidg1626 Domain Users   1.5k Oct 28 08:31 #8#


> I see files there named "2", "4", "6".  These names don't suggest to me
> that these are numbered backups of a draft.  _All_ files in this
> directory are named using this same scheme.  That's what I tried to say.

In Gnus it looks like this, I see no numbering with the default Gnus format

 . [   2: -> dieter@duenenhof-web] test
 .     <   2: -> dieter@duenenhof-web> 
 .     <   2: -> dieter@duenenhof-web> 


> Michael.

By chance, do you see it under MS Windows?

Shall I create a bug report?

Thank you

      Dieter