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Re: sending attachments



On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:34 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Perhaps you set your wl-draft-folder to a local folder:

(setq wl-draft-folder "+drafts")

and then in .folders:

+draft	"Local Drafts"

Best,
Per


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