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Re: Avoid Duplicates in $record if Send Fails



On Sunday, 17 June 2007 at 08:48, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Saturday, June 16 at 10:08 AM, quoth Brendan Cully:
> >On Saturday, 16 June 2007 at 16:57, Michael Tatge wrote:
> >> * On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 Svend Sorensen (ssorensen@xxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> >> > If the sending of a mail fails, and the compose screen is redisplayed,
> >> > the message is saved to the $record location. This happens each time
> >> > the send fails. This leads to duplicate mails in the $record mailbox.
> >> 
> >> Feature. Better have a few dups then lose the copy.
> >
> >It would probably be better to remember that an fcc has been written and not
> >rewrite it.
> 
> The trick, of course, is that once the send fails, you're allowed to 
> re-edit the message, change the recipients, add attachments, or 
> anything else. If only the first fcc wins, then you may not be 
> archiving the message that *actually* got sent.

That's true, but probably not incredibly difficult to cover
either. Just a small matter of coding...

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