On Tue, June 4, 2019 10:46 am, 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?
Very easily. > If the send fails, mutt prints an error message and stays on the message compose screen. The part starting with "and" is not always true, though. I've been bitten several times by mutt flashing an error message so quickly that I can't read it, and then immediately showing an empty inbox with a completely different error message about a lost connection to the IMAP server. -jack
