[MlMt] Error loading auto-saved draft

[Thomas Eckhold]

On 5 May 2014, at 17:42, Kee Hinckley wrote:

> The latest MailMate update notice (Version 1.8 (4214)) came in while I 
> was composing an message and without thinking about it, I said to 
> install. It quit, came up, and then asked  me if I  wanted to import 
> my auto-saved draft. I said yes.
>
> The next dialog that came up said:
>
> 	Message body for msg id 329797 not found 
> (Messages/IMAP/khinckley%40tivo.com at imaps.tivo.com/Drafts.mailbox/Messages/329797.eml)
>
> And indeed, checking the Drafts directory said it wasn't there. I 
> certainly didn't want to do a database rebuild, so I told it to ignore 
> and restart. Same thing.
>
> So this time I manually copied a different .eml file to 329797.eml and 
> told it to restart.
>
> Again it came up and asked me if I wanted to import the auto-saved 
> draft. I said yes.
>
> And it all worked. Not only that. It actually loaded the saved draft, 
> and 329797.eml in the Draft's directory is now the correct auto-saved 
> draft (I thought for sure I'd lost it).
>
> I'd guess that there's either a race condition, or something is 
> checking for the existence if the draft file when it shouldn't.

That is a problem I have noticed, too. Not only for version 4214. It 
seems to happen when I haven't saved the daft manually.   It is possible 
to solve the issue and avoid a rebuilt of the database by discarding the 
draft but that this isn't a good solution is obvious...

--Thomas
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