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authorDanilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>2026-09-06 15:26:31 +0200
committerDanilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>2026-09-06 15:26:31 +0200
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fix: keep one Message-ID across a draft's revisions
Every autosave called MessageBuilder::build(), which generated a fresh Message-ID unconditionally, so each revision of a draft was a different message rather than a new version of one. The entry called this invisible while the file is replaced correctly, and that turned out to be wrong: mbsync uploads each revision to the drafts folder before the next save removes the local file, so the server keeps one message per revision and syncs them all back down. Measured on real mail as four independent messages for a single reply, all four carrying a ,U= infix, threading into the conversation and putting a draft tag on a Sent row. Deleting a local file does not retract an uploaded one, which is why the local cleanup, which is correct, could never fix it. The user chose a stable id while drafting, discarded at send: the sent copy is a different item from the draft, and the draft is deleted once the message goes out, which the code already did. Three links, none of which existed. OutgoingMessage::messageId is the field, where empty means generate, so the send path is unchanged by construction rather than by remembering to clear it. MessageBuilder::build() uses a supplied id when there is one. ComposeWindow::m_draftMessageId holds the identity between revisions, assigned from built.messageId so the first save adopts the id GMime just generated, and ComposeContext::draftMessageId carries it across a reopen, read in forDraft() from ParsedMessage::messageId, which the parser already provided and nothing had ever used. Five tests, because the property spans three objects and a test at any one of them passes while another link is broken. Two are the safety constraint rather than the feature: a field defaulting to a fixed value would satisfy the reuse test and make two sent messages share an id, which is far worse than the defect this fixes. One comment is corrected rather than left: the autosave's dirty check justified comparing the message rather than the built bytes with "GMime is given a fresh Date and Message-ID on every build". Half of that is no longer true. The Date still is, so the conclusion stands. Revisions already on the server are not touched by this; the four found on real mail were deleted by hand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jq9gXquUo9W4KXDagJXMmn
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