On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:15:43PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > [snip] > > 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:
But that's only true as long as the computer doesn't crash (mutt stores mails in /tmp which is either a tmpfs or emptied on reboot). I admit the current situation is not perfect, but at least I won't lose the message no matter what happens once I've pressed send. Any change of this behavior which might result in lost messages is something we should really avoid. Regards Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9
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