In a message of Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:23:04 -0500, Ken Hornstein writes: >>There was time for me to go to the kitchen, pour me a drink, come back >>and 'ohhh. What's this on my screen?', so plenty to time for something >>to munge things beneath me. Alas. I was hoping that a smarter send could >>understand that the hassle involved in removing an unwanted draft is minor, >>and so cautiuously bump the draft number for subsequent messages so that >>there was no chance of reusing the draft number if it ever detected a >>problem, or, alternatively making an emergency backup from outside the >>draft sequence altogether. Too hard? > >AFAIK, this is what is supposed to happen (and does, in my experience). >Nothing in nmh deletes the draft; as Ralph pointed out, it always >renames the draft, so 42 becomes ,42, no matter what your rmmproc does. >If send fails, 42 is left around and the next time you run repl/comp, >you should get 43. So I'm really at a loss as to what happened here. > >It would be interesting to make sure that in your drafts folder there >exist a bunch of old messages with backup prefix.
more than 100 of them. > >--Ken Laura _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers