order of sending mail and saving to fcc

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Tue Jun 4 16:44:21 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 12:30:59PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
>Does anybody know the reason of this change?

The most recent discussion on mutt-dev was 
<https://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=146942930418541&w=2>.  The issue is 
contentious, and there are arguments on both sides.

In this case, the comments by active developers seemed to be in 
consensus that prompting if Fcc fails afterwards is a reasonable 
compromise.

Another reason was the implementation of Protected Headers.  The current 
mechanism supporting $fcc_attach and $fcc_clear already went through 
gymnastics to transform the message, save to Fcc, and back out those 
changes for sending.  The introduction of Protected Headers made backing 
out changes substantially more difficult without breaking cryptographic 
signatures.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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