On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:25:53 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Outgoing messages may remain in the outbox and fail to get sent for > reasons other than an SMTP upload abort. For example, due to a typo > or some other oversight you might sometimes prepare an outgoing message > that fails to comply with the RFC's. In this case the message will > remain in your outbox and fail to get sent, and you won't even get any > error messages during the SMTP session. Things like that can happen > also as a result of an occasional glitch in the matrix, even when the > SMTP session is not aborted, and even when your outgoing message is RFC > compliant.
So let Arachne alert me, or alternatively open the Outbox, only when there *IS* stuff left unsent. The very lack of such an alert will then tell me that the Outbox is empty. > My preferences are differnt. After doing SMTP I would always want to be > left looking at my outbox, regardless of whatever screen I should call > the SMTP function from. Other than to see that it is empty there doesn't seem to be any point in looking at the Outbox. -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
