KMail: draft message lost

[Kevin]

Hi All-

I'm using KMail 1.6.2 on KDE 3.2.2 to connect to a Cyrus IMAP server 
that I operate.

I've configured KMail to use an imap folder on the server as the draft 
message folder.  I had a problem with disk space on the imap server 
where the partition holding this draft message folder filled up 
completely (had about an hour of time during which this condition was 
true).

During that time (that the partition was full), I opened a message in my 
draft folder (one I've spent about 4-6 hours composing), made some 
changes to it, then attempted to store it in the draft message folder 
again using the "Message->Save in Drafts Folder" menu item (not knowing 
about the disk space problem).

KMail said: "Can't save to file ares" where ares is the name of the imap 
server and then closed the draft message window, apparently not storing 
it anywhere in either KMail's local folder system or on the filesystem 
or anywhere else that I can find.

Recovering a copy of this draft message would save me about 4-6 hours of 
rewriting the message, but I'm completely at a loss about where 
KDE/KMail might have saved it (if it saved it at all).  In my 
experience, it's very rare for a well-developed unix app like KMail to 
do something like throw away content like that.  Does anyone here know 
if (and where) KDE/KMail might have stored it?  I looked in the .kde 
folder, I looked for a dead.letter file, I looked in all the places 
that it would seem obvious to store it 
(.kde/cache-hostname, .kde/tmp-hostname, .kde/share/apps/kmail, etc.) 
but haven't seen it.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

-Kevin
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