On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:36:06PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > Hi, > > * On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 02:46AM +0200 Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.org) > muttered: > > Mutt should store the message to the Sent folder *after* running > > sendmail and *only* if sendmail returned with a zero exit status. > > NO, this was what mutt was doing long ago. The current behaviour was > introduced exactly to *prevent* the situation where sending fails and > you don't have a local copy.
The current behavior is *a* workaround, but it is not *the only* workaround, and it is I think, clearly not the best solution to the problem. As Vincent pointed out, if you save first but sending fails, the user may later see the message in the sent folder and believe it was sent, when indeed it was not. Writing the message first when the message may fail to be sent is, in at least one sense, irrefutably *wrong*: It clearly misrepresents the state of the operation. So long as Mutt retains the original message, the fact that it could not write the message to Fcc is not particularly problematic. It's already been pointed out in this thread that you DO have a local copy... The file was saved to disk by your editor. This means that before Mutt gives up on saving the message, it can offer you any number of options for solving the problem of being unable to write it to Fcc. Also already in this thread, several of those options have been enumerated, but two that were not included: - mail the message to yourself, possibly at some alternative address - copy Mutt's temp file to removable media or network filesystem There are probably still others that no one has spent the time to think of. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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