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23.4; message-mode quietly saves plaintext in draft folder (potentially remote IMAP servers)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
Cc: 19585 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19585: 23.4; message-mode quietly saves plaintext in draft folder (potentially remote IMAP servers)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:57:11 +0200

Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name> writes:

>> I'm not quite sure I understand.  How does the draft end up in Gmail in
>> the first place?  I didn't think Gnus supported storing the drafts on an
>> IMAP server?
>
> unfortunately i don't remember the details anymore.
>
> i suspect what happened was something like this: i configured
> gmail/IMAP as the "backend" for gnus, and the local draft folder got
> linked to the gmail/IMAP draft folder.

I've had another look at the gnus-draft code, and it hard-codes
"nndraft:drafts" all over the place, and that backend (as far as I can
see) only supports storing drafts locally on disk.

So I don't see how this can happen.  :-)

I'm closing this bug report, but please reopen if anybody experiences
the same.

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