On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-07-27 15:43:40 +0100, Ian Collier wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 02:46:18AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Mutt should store the message to the Sent folder *after* running > > > sendmail and *only* if sendmail returned with a zero exit status. > > > > What happens if mutt is unable to store the message because the IMAP > > server is down or the partition with the Sent folder is out of space? > > I think that the right solution would be to prompt the user for > retrying. The user should have the choice between: > > 1. Retry (default). > 2. Choose a different folder where the message could be saved, and > retry on it. > 3. Some alternative solution to avoid losing the message (in case > the user had not put himself in Cc/Bcc)? (e.g. send the message > to some address if possible) > 4. Abort (i.e. the message is not saved at all).
This makes sense to me. I'd be somewhat inclined to skip option #3 but it does provide some recourse if the user's configured Fcc location is unwritable, and the user lacks sufficient priviledges to do anything about that. Mostly useful in a University setting or similar shared server environment. Trouble is, the user needs to remember the message got saved elsewhere and then do something about that later. -- 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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