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it might help to simply change the text from "Message sent" to "Message has been handed over to your mail system"

That's just a noisy way of saying the same thing. Sending an email is a chain of handoffs, and there's never a guarantee that a sent email will reach its target.

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Re^6: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky
by soonix (Chancellor) on May 20, 2016 at 15:41 UTC

    You know that, and therefore for you it is mere noise. Does the "average" person reporting perl bugs know it?

    I admit that finding bugs in perl that don't turn out to be bugs in one's own code, calls for a certain amount of expertise, and so anyone using perlbug might know this anyway, and perhaps the OP was an exception, but …
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      If they don't know email is unreliable, I don't see how the alternative phrasing you proposed is going to help any.
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        From my experience in user support: they might not even be aware that email is involved. Could be sent by fax or telepathy :-)

        Joking aside, if I'm deeply concentrating on some complicated matter, I tend to totally blend out everything else. This (although overly legalese) wording would remind me the system has other parts that matter, too.

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