Re: strange message before sending mail

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Jun 2026 16:54:23 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 09:10:12AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>why is Mutt even reading and encoding attachments prior actual sending?

It's not encoding the attachment at that time.  It scans the attachment 
and decides what encoding will be used later, when writing the message 
out.

>Other thing, why is mutt looking for atime instead of mtime? 'touch' or 
>systemwide scripts (security scans, backups, whatever) shall modify 
>only the former one. But I suppose portability is the keyword here...

It's comparing against mtime.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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