#584264 option to write fcc only after sendmail exits successfully

Package:
mutt
Source:
mutt
Description:
text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
Submitter:
martin f krafft
Date:
2022-06-13 07:45:14 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#584264#5
Date:
2010-06-02 18:56:00 UTC
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mutt writes a message to fcc even if $sendmail exits non-zero.
I don't think it should do that as it might yield the false
impression that a message was sent (e.g. if it was fcc'd to =sent,
albeit not actually being sent).
#584264#10
Date:
2010-06-04 21:58:45 UTC
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Hello Martin,

Am 2010-06-02 20:56:00, schrieb martin f krafft:

This was already discused and an earlier bugreport closed...

However I fully aggree with you, because I have some tools for automated
processing and if sendmail can not send but the the messages  is  saved,
it would be local processed from a script even if the  message  was  not
send...  and over and over processed if I retry to send the message.

Such bug is more then only annoying.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
#584264#15
Date:
2010-06-13 18:16:31 UTC
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also sprach Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> [2010.06.04.2358 +0200]:

Do you have a reference?
#584264#20
Date:
2010-06-14 08:36:56 UTC
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severity 584264 wishlist
retitle 584264 option to write fcc only after sendmail exits successfully
tags 584264 upstream
forwarded 584264 http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3420
thanks

I found #264973, which was indeed wontfix. The gist is that some
people want this behaviour, and some the other behaviour. What
a surprise!

So I am turning this bug report into a wishlist:

It would be nice if mutt grew an option that allowed me to toggle
between (in shell pseudo-code):

  a. fcc && sendmail
  b. sendmail && fcc

The current behaviour is (a.), but some of us would really like to
only write a $record of a message if it has actually been sent.

Thanks for your consideration.
#584264#33
Date:
2010-06-15 09:26:47 UTC
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Am 2010-06-13 20:16:31, schrieb martin f krafft:

Now yes!   It is Bug #264973 and was from 2004

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
#584264#40
Date:
2022-05-06 21:28:56 UTC
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The default behavior was changed in Mutt 1.12.0 to fcc after sending
(successfully).  Mutt version 1.12.1 added an option $fcc_before_send to
control the order.