order of sending mail and saving to fcc

Derek Martin invalid at pizzashack.org
Tue Jun 11 17:16:46 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:24:11AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> * Jack M <jack at forallx.net> [2019-06-04 10:20 -0500]:
> > On Tue, June 4, 2019 5:30 am, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> > > The other one (mail sent, but no local copy)
> > 
> > Why would this situation would ever occur?
> 
> A power failure at the wrong moment. A crash at the wrong moment. ...
> 
> These things tend to happen only at wrong moments.

But the failure mode of the current behavior is superior:  With the
old way, you look in Fcc and see the message was sent, so you don't
send it again (unless you're unusually paranoid, maybe).

With the current way, you see there's no message in Fcc, and you send
it again.

It's better to receive the same e-mail twice, than to never receive it
at all, if it contains important content.

And by the way, changes like this one don't happen in a vaccuum.  The
change was discussed on mutt-dev at some length when it happened, and
it was eventually agreed that the new behavior is the right one.

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