Re: [Nmh-workers] Finished with Draft is not rmmproc'd.

[Paul Fox]

ralph wrote:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > It seems uip/sendsbr.c:sendsbr() just renames the draft to have the
 > BACKUP_PREFIX at the start of it.
 > 
 >     /* rename the original draft */
 >     if (rename_drft && status == OK &&
 >         rename (original_draft, strncpy (buffer,
 >         m_backup (original_draft), sizeof(buffer))) == NOTOK)
 >         advise (buffer, "unable to rename %s to", drft);
 > 
 > I've an rmmproc that effectively does
 > 
 >     mv $f ,$f,`date +%s.%N`
 > 
 > as it means I can undelete any email, or grep deleted emails, including
 > all emails that have ever been 42.  I purge these prior to backups.
 > 
 > I've just tried to get back mail/drafts/42 but another 42 has occurred
 > in the meantime and that's now ,42.  It would seem more consistent if
 > rmmproc was used here too.

well, that explains why i've always had ,NN files in my drafts folder,
even though i have my own rmmproc which refiles messages.  thank you. 
i've never cared much, because i've never wanted an old draft -- i
usually have the text in my outbox folder, but i can see how that
might not always be the case.

rather than reusing rmmproc, i would suggest creating a new
"rmdraftproc", or somesuch.  it would certainly change my workflow
in a surprising way if my deleted drafts started ending up in my
deleted mail folder(s).

paul
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