personal wishlist #5083

Are we all losing our short-term memories, or is it a fact of human nature that after typing in an email, we assume it's done, and just don't think about that attachment we promised to include with the email? I see it more and more often. .. Er, and I do it more and more often. I'm tempted to collect some data to see if this plagues mutt users more than users of other MTAs; we have to remember about the attachment all the way through to the end of the email, through saving it and existing our text editor, and only then tell mutt about it.

Anyway, so mutt needs a hook that runs before a mail is sent, with a nice little script that guesses when we promised an attachment, and left it out. Or, there needs to be a way to include an attachment on the fly, as soon as you type those fated words. I can think of several ways to do that, all hacks. OR, sendmail needs to finally grow that promised AI, and block at SMTP time emails that fail on their promises of attachments. Yeah!