On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:34:56 -0600 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 14:27:36 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote: >>> > So does htis get a new subject in the list? Interesting. I'll try it next time I want to use a comment from one thread as a separate topic. BUT I wrote a totally new subject line. Surely that is removing 'Re: ' I'd appreciate a good explanation if somebody is up to it. >>> >>> It would appear so. I guess you could also have removed the Re: >>> from the subject line. >>> >>> > I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail >>> > collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound >>> > like this is a common practice. >>> > >>> > What are the advantages of this set of processes over letting >>> > tbird do it all? - or any other client for that matter? >>> >>> Disadvantages of using your email client to send might include: >>> . sending is relatively instant as the client is dispatching >>> it to the same machine, not the remote smarthost, So I wouldn't get the message saying the note is being sent by the client - because that bit is 'instantaneous' by being local. >>> . exim will retry sending if your smarthost is busy/unavailable, OK. I have had instances of the 'sending' notice being there when I come back after lunch. >>> . it keeps logs, Fair enough >>> . it send emails on behalf of other processes, like cron jobs, >>> where your client is not involved. Is that why email from cron doesn't happen sometimes, then magically happens. >>> >>> I don't collect emails in Flo's sense, as I use IMAP rather than >>> POP. So my INBOX is merely mutt's cache of individual emails, >>> rather than a live mailfile. The actual server is somewhere around >>> Manchester/Stockport. I prefer imap as I check mail on 3 devices, but it's become too slow to be workable, recently. I do check back occasionally to see if the connection to Germany is getting better. It is 20,000Km I suppose. I had this thought as I completed that last sentence: should I use my ISP as a collection point for my many addresses? Thanks for a thought provoking response. I'll be contemplating this for a bit yet. -- Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmx.com ke1thozgro...@gmx.com
