Re: [Geary] follow-up to bug 747627: cannot save new message

[Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>]

Il giorno lun 28 nov 2016 alle 15:34, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> ha 
scritto:
> Yeah, that's symptomatic of the issue. Looking at the log for your 
> two accounts, the server for the first one supports the IMAP UIDPLUS 
> extension, which Geary currently requires so it knows what the id of 
> a newly created draft is, and hence can delete it again when updating 
> the saved draft or sending the draft message. However the server for 
> the second account, the webfaction account that Geary can't save 
> drafts to, doesn't support UIDPLUS and hence you get that error 
> message.

This is interesting, because it explains also the problem I described 
in "Bug 764581 - unread count is incorrect when receiving replies to 
email address and email alias". I've just added a comment there:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764581#c2
> In this situation, Geary should probably indicate somehow that saving 
> drafts is not possible for account, and not offer to save drafts. If 
> you file a new bug for that I'll look into a fix.

Great, here it is:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775263
> A proper fix however would be to have some kind of fallback so that 
> servers that do not support UIDPLUS can still be used to save drafts. 
> I have a feeling that the way to do that is implement local draft 
> folders, i.e. Bug 713581.
>
> One last thing, in[0] you mentioned you were getting a "No drafts 
> folder found" error, did you do anything to fix that, or did it just 
> go away?

I think that it just went away, but I don't remember well as I tried 
many things (e.g. I fiddled with the folder settings on the roundcube 
webmail.. can't remember if I saw something strange or not).

Thanks
Federico