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From: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:29:27 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> Throw an error after the maildir is generated but before the message
> is sent. This change allows the user to edit the maildir if it fails,
> so that it will point to a correct place.
> 
> Note that this changes the previous behavior which always overwrote
> the existing Fcc line. Now, an Fcc line is only auto-generated if
> there isn't one already there.

I like this behavior
 
> The ideal change would be to prompt to create a maildir. This should
> enable a place for doing that in a future patch.

It would also be nice to catch the common mistake of not ending the
message-directory with a /

/D


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Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center