On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 04:45:48PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 08:46:52AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 12:57:02PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > > Editing an attachment after attaching it (with a normal tool; recode is > > > known to be an aberration). > > > > I can't remember I ever saw that message, but I don't quite get it: > > Attachment #2 modified. Update encoding for /tmp/f? ([yes]/no): > > > > This is after an 'echo a >> /tmp/f'. Why "Update encoding"? > > Mutt scans the attachment to determine whether to use 7-bit, 8-bit, QP, or > Base64 encoding.
The encoding did not change. Why I'm being asked if I want to update it? Anyways, this all feels a like a bad idea to me, but probably not important enough to waste too much time with it.
