Re: sending attachments

[Rodrigo Amestica <ramestica@nrao.edu>]

> At Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:58:35 -0800,
> Erik Hetzner wrote:
>> 
>> At Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:42:46 +0100,
>> Sebastian Hofer wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > It sometimes happens to me that while I am drafting an email
>> > including an attachment, wl tries to save it to my imap server (I
>> > guess this happens when it checks for incoming mail). This is fine
>> > if the attachment is reasonably small but for larger attachments
>> > that sometimes takes forever, which is annoying as it stalls emacs
>> > completely. The only way to get out of this is to kill openssl from
>> > the shell. Sometimes I go into offline mode prior to drafting the
>> > mail, which helps as I can afterward tell wl not to apply pending
>> > operations but most of the time I forget to do that. Is there a way
>> > to tell wl not to save drafts to the server while still drafting but
>> > only after they were sent?
>> 
>> Maybe:
>> 
>> (setq wl-auto-save-drafts-interval nil)
>> 
>> This will disable auto-saving of drafts.

> What I really want is for WL to save drafts, but locally instead of on
> my IMAP server.

this works for me:

(setq wl-draft-folder ".~/maildir/Drafts")

then C-c C-z and C-x C-s produce a copy of the draft in that maildir
folder. I have disabled the automatic saving of drafts, therefore, I
cannot say if that would save in the same folder as well.

Rodrigo

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