From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Notmuch List <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Confusing message from notmuch-maildir-fcc-with-notmuch-insert
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 07:10:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnhaezx0.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfry6h1a.fsf@wondoo.home.cworth.org>
Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
>
> Certainly if the code had just created the directory for me, everything
> would have been fine. But I guess I can understand why the code doesn't
> do that if we're trying to support a case where users are manually
> typing random strings in for the Fcc header and might typo something? I
> don't know how much I _really_ care about that use case, (if notmuch
> creates a directory based on a typo the mail will still be indexed and
> perhaps some notmuch users don't care much about directory names inside
> the mail store).
>
> Otherwise, if the message had said:
>
> Failed to save sent message in local mail store. Directory
> /home/cworth/mail/sent does not exist. Create? (y/n)
>
> Then I definitely would have understood the message and things would
> have been much smoother for me.
>
I agree your message is clearer, if the only possible failure is a
missing directory. I'm not sure if that's the case though. Probably a
first step is to make sure a sensible description of the error is
reported by notmuch insert and made available to the user.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-04 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-03 18:13 Confusing message from notmuch-maildir-fcc-with-notmuch-insert Carl Worth
2022-03-04 11:10 ` David Bremner [this message]
2022-03-04 15:11 ` Miguel Bernabeu
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