Re: Address management and Cc/Bcc

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 10:10:10AM +0200, MUTTjndskjednej--- via Mutt-users=
 wrote:
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
> > From: "Kevin J. McCarthy"
> > Alternatively, you can wait until after the first edit session, and in
> > the compose menu edit the Cc/Bcc list via <edit-cc>
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> Yeah, I'd forget, knowing me! Like when I write "I've attached such and
> such to this email" and then having to write an apology email afterwards
> that actually does have the attachment. Sooo many times!

I do the same, and use mutt to help.  If you use Mutt's sendmail support to=
 send emails (vs SMTP), save the attached script somewhere, make it executa=
ble, and edit muttrc to have this line:

set sendmail =3D "/path/to/muttCheckAttach /usr/lib/sendmail -oem -oi"

It's based on a script I got from the old wiki, but I've refined things ove=
r the years.  It looks for a multipart/mixed message (message with file att=
achments, roughly).  It scans for keywords like "attach" or "patch" (custom=
izable).  It also looks for a header that is "X-attached: none" or "Resent-=
=46rom:" (a header mutt adds to bounce messages).

If it finds a message without attachments but that does have keywords and d=
oesn't find an override header, it prints an error message and fails the se=
nd, letting you reedit.

If the message isn't all of those things, it uses the argument to send the =
message on.

You'll find an X-attached: none header on this message, since it includes t=
he keywords but no attachments!

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