[domain in logs changed to example.com]

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. From mu4e-main, press 'C' to compose a new email. Composition window opened, but with an error. From Messages:

Saving file /home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120313-201c19f6830c1ff0f7dd.malbec:2,D...
Wrote /home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120313-201c19f6830c1ff0f7dd.malbec:2,D
Toggling flyspell-mode off; better pass an explicit argument.
Error 11: failed to add path '~/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120313-201c19f6830c1ff0f7dd.malbec:2,D'

2. Compose email and then type C-c C-c to send. Email appears to send correctly, but another error seen in Messages (after the smtp log), and the composition window is left open (I would expect it to close and to return to mu4e-main).

   Auto-saving...done Sending... Sending via mail... 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP Smtpd; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:23:47 -0700 250-smtp.example.com Hello [a.b.c.d], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 20971520 250-DSN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-STARTTLS 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP 235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated 250 2.1.0 <jladan@example.com>... Sender ok 250 2.1.5 <cxchen@example.com>... Recipient ok 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself 250 2.0.0 q2DKNl3W021340-q2DKNl3X021340 Message accepted for delivery Saving file /home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120313-201c19f6830c1ff0f7dd.malbec:2,D... Wrote /home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120313-201c19f6830c1ff0f7dd.malbec:2,D if: unknown message ("/home/james/Mail/Drafts/cur/20120313-201c19f6830c1ff0f7dd.malbec:2,D")

3. Run offlineimap to sync email. Error on processing drafts folder: ... DEBUG[imap]: 27:45.49 mail.example.com reader < KKDK12 NO Message contains invalid header\r\n ... Thread 'New msg sync from Drafts' terminated with exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/offlineimap/threadutil.py", line 159, in run Thread.run(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 505, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 248, in syncmessagesto_neguid_msg successuid = dstfolder.savemessage(uid, message, flags, rtime) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py", line 436, in savemessage assert(typ == 'OK') AssertionError

   Last 23 debug messages logged for New msg sync from Drafts prior to exception: imap: savemessage: called imap: 27:44.32 New msg sync from Drafts [sync] SELECT ('Drafts',) imap: 27:44.32 New msg sync from Drafts state_change_pending.acquire imap: 27:44.32 New msg sync from Drafts _request_push(KKDK11, SELECT, {}) = KKDK11 imap: 27:44.32 New msg sync from Drafts data=KKDK11 SELECT Drafts imap: 27:44.32 New msg sync from Drafts SELECT:KKDK11.ready.wait imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts state => SELECTED imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts state_change_pending.release imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts _get_untagged_response(EXISTS) => ['1'] imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts _untagged_response(OK, ?, EXISTS) => ['1'] imap: savemessage: using date "13-Mar-2012 13:21:35 -0800" imap: savemessage: content is: 'From: James Ladan <jladan@example.com>\r\nReply-To: jladan@example.com\r\nTo: \r\nUser-agent: mu4e 0.9.8.1; emacs 23.3.1\r\nSubject: \r\n--text follows this line--\r\n' imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts [sync] APPEND ('Drafts', '(\Draft)', '"13-Mar-2012 13:21:35 -0800"') imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts state_change_pending.acquire imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts _get_untagged_response(OK) => ['[PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] '] imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts _request_push(KKDK12, APPEND, {}) = KKDK12 imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts data=KKDK12 APPEND Drafts (\Draft) "13-Mar-2012 13:21:35 -0800" {157} imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts _request_push(continuation, None, {}) = KKDK13 imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts None:KKDK13.ready.wait imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts continuation => True, go ahead imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts write literal size 157 imap: 27:45.13 New msg sync from Drafts APPEND:KKDK12.ready.wait imap: 27:45.49 New msg sync from Drafts state_change_pending.release

4. ~/Mail/Drafts/cur contains both final email and the initial draft before any editing with ~ suffix on filename.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? - Expect no errors. Saw errors. Expect draft to be removed after sending and saved in the configured maildir. Searching with grep in Archive maildir for a unique string in the email finds no match (in either 'new' or 'cur').

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? - User-agent: mu4e 0.9.8.1; emacs 23.3.1 - Ubuntu 11.10; using Gnome 3.

Configuration snippets:

Emacs: (when (require 'mu4e nil 'noerror) (setq mu4e-user-mail-address-regexp "jladan@example.com" mu4e-maildir "~/Mail" ;; top-level Maildir mu4e-sent-folder "/Archive" ;; where do i keep sent mail? mu4e-drafts-folder "/Drafts" ;; where do i keep half-written mail? mu4e-trash-folder "/Trash" ;; where do i move deleted mail? mu4e-maildir-shortcuts '( ("/INBOX" . ?i) ("/Archive" . ?a) ("/lists.tup" . ?t)) mu4e-html2text-command "html2text" mu4e-get-mail-command "pullmail-mu4e"))

"pullmail-mu4e" is a symlink to "pullmail", attached.

Forgot to specify mu4e directly in subject line, sorry.

Hi, I think the problem is that your mu4e-maildir is not fully expanded (ie., the ~/Mail in your configuration); can you try setting mu4e-maildir to "/home/james/Mail" instead?

(Admittedly, this not very clear from the documentation... next version of mu should do this automatically).

Thanks for debugging this!

Yep - "/home/james/Mail" does the trick, thanks!

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I spoke too soon. The drafts mechanism is fine now, but offlineimap still chokes.

The sent email was moved into my Archive folder, but when offlineimap hits it, it still complains. (Or maybe the IMAP server doesn't like what it's being given.)

Thread 'New msg sync from Archive' terminated with exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/offlineimap/threadutil.py", line 159, in run Thread.run(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 505, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 248, in syncmessagesto_neguid_msg successuid = dstfolder.savemessage(uid, message, flags, rtime) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py", line 436, in savemessage assert(typ == 'OK') AssertionError

Last 3 debug messages logged for New msg sync from Archive prior to exception: imap: savemessage: called imap: savemessage: using date "16-Mar-2012 10:41:04 -0800" imap: savemessage: content is: "From: James Ladan \r\nTo: James Ladan \r\nSubject: mu4e test of the day (1)\r\nUser-agent: mu4e 0.9.8.1; emacs 23.3.1\r\nReply-To: jladan@example.com\r\nDate: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:41:03 -0700\r\nMessage-ID: <871uos4f68.fsf@example.com>\r\nThis is a test. Let's see what happens when I send.\r\n" Exception in thread mail.example.com reader (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):

I just added a line between "Message-ID" and the body and it worked fine. Before the edit, the message body followed the headers without any blank line:

From: James Ladan <jladan@example.com>
To: James Ladan <james@ladan.ca>
Subject: mu4e test of the day (1)
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.8.1; emacs 23.3.1
Reply-To: jladan@example.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:41:03 -0700
Message-ID: <871uos4f68.fsf@example.com>
This is a test. Let's see what happens when I send.

Thanks for checking this! I pushed an update for the newline issue to the git repo.

Pulled/built/installed. Perfect, thanks. :)

Thanks - closing this.