On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:15:18PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >esmtp will contact the appropriate SMTP server on your behalf > >and will use the correct credentials to connect (if required). > > What happens if sending fails (for whatever temporary reason)? Will > esmtp queue the mail, like a real MTA would? The issue is problematic > with all those "minimalistic" pseudo-MTAs because mutt thinks it's > delivering to a real sendmail, and hence doesn't handle failure > gracefully (at least not afair). Mozilla otoh, initiating the smtp > connection by itself, will let you retry, or save it to a Drafts folder. > With mutt, your mail is probably gone.
Indeed. That's really a problem. I wished mutt would include libESMTP as a compile/configure option, and thus queue unsent mails in a dedicated mailbox. I don't think that it would be very difficult to merge libESMTP into mutt anyway. It's a mystery why it didn't happen yet :) > -- > Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
