[mew-int 2602] Recovering drafts

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

I was in the middle of typing an email today when the power went
out. After it came back, I could see my half finished draft in the
file ~/Mew/draft/#1#. So I went to the +draft folder, selected message
#1, and hit E. I was now greeted with the message (from memory) "An
autosave file exists. Consider M-x recover-file." So I naïvely hit M-x
recover-this-file, and was told something along the lines of "this
file is not current". And after this, #1# was gone. Fortunately, the
lost draft was not long and easy to reconstruct, but it makes me
uneasy. Is there a trick to recovering from these situations?

- Harald