On Tue, June 4, 2019 5:30 am, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > Hallo, > > > I just noted the entry in UPDATING: > ! Fcc now occurs after sending a message. If the fcc fails, mutt will > prompt to try again, or to try another mailbox. > > This seems to be: > https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/e106487b1f4ebe7128982486accec11ac6f > 54b5c > > > Does anybody know the reason of this change?
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 and so has to contact the recipient. (The Fcc'd copy contains no information to tell the user whether the mail was sent.) This was not a rare occurrence. The new way is a million times better. If something weird happens during the sending attempt, the user now is aware of this and can decide what to do. No misleading Fcc copy is put in a mailbox. The user can give up, save a copy of the message to a local folder, etc. > The other one (mail sent, but no local copy) Why would this situation would ever occur? -jack
