Re: [PATCH] Change attachment stamping to use stat st_mtime by default.

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-23 08:46:52 +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
> I can't remember I ever saw that message, but I don't quite get it:
> Attachment #2 modified. Update encoding for /tmp/f? ([yes]/no):
> 
> This is after an 'echo a >> /tmp/f'. Why "Update encoding"?

I'd say that this is quite unlikely that the encoding needs to be
updated... except when the user explicitly chooses to change the
file encoding with a tool like "recode", for which Mutt fails to
detect the change!

So, currently, I have doubts on the usefulness of the test.

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