Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5AE431FBD for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:12 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SiB5Gm9lc2hV for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-yw0-f200.google.com (mail-yw0-f200.google.com [209.85.211.200]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C253431FBC for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by ywh38 with SMTP id 38so5459991ywh.6 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=mQ9NNxspWiNGAZv0qwKGor4ypoP/aFMg85z7XaE8TNg=; b=s0nBWSS1WKlrdEv7wFbJSgzEPe04yz1cLAZTnasTRpyu/5P3zYaEkc34rxivccKxvG 6X9m7nQaTGtf1XHdOxMFpsIiwSdP2ay/x7I7RcNX+B/krSwXYxbhmoGfQksueDdTVPrg NYTAdKxI/sglvMT9XrH8uqo7OkXrXfHdfEMZw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:bcc:references:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type; b=QBpb99N9e50jfVUxOHkweYL5EyjozXgVVZ3D92uNfvLz6Xs1hxeiefyO58vUer6XWP jy4asKsvjzgI86QDHPA7LI3R8ra7OOZTmhQWyDjoo3HpmbNDgjgbVcbjV1hwYjEGqiGG fR2hxkoAIBSk12s6ni/tuvmchK/WA5nZf98CM= Received: by 10.90.24.13 with SMTP id 13mr1942984agx.112.1261389490525; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (220-244-174-171.static.tpgi.com.au [220.244.174.171]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm2720344gxk.5.2009.12.21.01.58.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:08 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Ghitza To: Jameson Graef Rollins , Marten Veldthuis In-Reply-To: <20091220183113.GA4482@finestructure.net> References: <54hbrnpod1.fsf@gmail.com> <8763836xnv.fsf@59A2.org> <54hbrmze3v.fsf@gmail.com> <87aaxextev.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <54eimqz2sk.fsf@gmail.com> <87ws0hjyio.fsf@veldthuis.com> <20091220183113.GA4482@finestructure.net> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:57:40 +1100 Message-ID: <54iqc0wsx7.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [notmuch] keeping a copy of sent mail locally X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0000 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:31:13 -0500, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > Hi, folks. I've been following this thread a bit and I wanted to put > in my argument that using Bcc is *NOT* the way to save local copies of > sent mail. I really don't think that we need to require that the mail > actually get send out to the world wide net just to save a copy of it > locally. I think there must be better ways of doing this. Agreed, and I think that directly saving to a file is the sane way to go. However, there might be other (more legitimate) uses for always bcc-ing a certain address on all sent mail, and it might be good to have an easy mechanism for this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/