Hello Grant, On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 04:46:50PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-06-04, Jack M <j...@forallx.net> wrote: > > > The reason (or *a* reason) is that the old way led to the following > > situation: Fcc first, then try to send, something weird happens, but > > the user has no idea whether the mail was actually sent or not > > How could the user not know? If the send fails, mutt prints an error > message and stays on the message compose screen. It's pretty > obvious...
I have the bad habit of pressing 'q' (exit to menu) after sending. Also terminal corruption or similar events: you can't be sure whether the message was actually sent. I see the points made by Nicolas Rachinsky too.