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

On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 04:45:48PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 08:46:52AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 12:57:02PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > Editing an attachment after attaching it (with a normal tool; recode is
> > > known to be an aberration).
> > 
> > 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"?
> 
> Mutt scans the attachment to determine whether to use 7-bit, 8-bit, QP, or
> Base64 encoding.

The encoding did not change. Why I'm being asked if I want to update it?

Anyways, this all feels a like a bad idea to me, but probably not
important enough to waste too much time with it.