order of sending mail and saving to fcc

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-06-04, Jack M <jack at 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? If the send fails, mutt prints an error
message and stays on the message compose screen.  It's pretty
obvious...

> 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.

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