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David J. MacKenzie writes:
 > I'm mailing a message using M-x vm-mail for VM 5.31 under Emacs 18.55.
 > The buffer listing starts out like this:
 > 
 >  MR Buffer         Size  Mode           File
 >  -- ------         ----  ----           ----
 > .*  *VM-mail*	   188	 Mail		
 > 
 > But emacs is still trying to autosave the buffer -- every minute or
 > so I get a beep and an error message, "Autosaving... error! for *VM-mail*".
 > 
 > Anyone have a guess as to why this is happening?

My guess is that you're using my modified verison of time.el that
does time-based auto-saving.  There's a function definition at the
end of the file:

(defun auto-save-timer ()
  (setq auto-save-timer (+ auto-save-timer display-time-interval))
  (cond
   ((>= auto-save-timer auto-save-time-interval)
    (do-auto-save)
    (setq auto-save-timer (- auto-save-timer auto-save-time-interval)))))

If an error occurs during the auto-save, the timer value won't be
updated so Emacs will continue to try to auto-save the buffer
until it succeeds.  This is a feature.  Interchange the last two
s-expressions in the function definition if you don't want this
behavior.  I.e.

(defun auto-save-timer ()
  (setq auto-save-timer (+ auto-save-timer display-time-interval))
  (cond
   ((>= auto-save-timer auto-save-time-interval)
    (setq auto-save-timer (- auto-save-timer auto-save-time-interval))
    (do-auto-save))))