Re: My drafts group has disappeared

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:11:53 -0400 Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: 

DD> My drafts group has disappeared and I don't know how to get it back. The
DD> value of nndraft-directory is "~/News/drafts/" and indeed
DD> ~/News/drafts/drafts contains my drafts (an empty dir
DD> ~/News/drafts/queue also exists).

DD> My server buffer looks like this

DD>      {nnfolder:archive} (opened)
DD>      {nnmairix:mairix} (opened)
DD>      {nntp:news.gmane.org} (opened)
DD>      {nnimap:dc} (opened) (agent)

DD> I don't know what nnfolder is and it seems to be empty. How do I get the
DD> contents of ~/News/drafts/drafts served to me as a gnus group and
DD> behaving as a drafts group should?

Hmm.  I don't know either, but this has been a problem before, e.g. 

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64389/match=nndraft+disappear
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41961/match=nndraft+disappear

James Cloos advised you can just add something like the following to
your newsrc.eld (these two are from my newsrc file):

("nndraft:drafts" 1 nil nil (nndraft "") ((gnus-dummy (gnus-draft-mode))))
("nndraft:queue" 1 nil nil (nndraft "") ((gnus-dummy (gnus-draft-mode))))

It seems to me that if you follow James' advice to edit your newsrc you
will get the nndraft server.  But I also don't see why it shouldn't show
up if you compose a message and then save it as a draft (`C-c C-d').  I
don't know how to replicate the problem: is the latter action
insufficient to bring the nndraft server back?

If we figure this out we'll make sure it's either fixed in the code or
documented in the FAQ so it's not as painful for users in the future.

Thanks
Ted