On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:49:15PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:49:27PM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote: > > > So, if, e.g., the PPP link is down and I haven't noticed that, mutt will > > tell me that my email has been sent, while it is actually stored in some > > directory on my hard-drive, awaiting my next connection to the > > Internet... probably established to download the replies to the emails I > > _thought_ I had sent! > > I actually think queueing is a *feature* on laptops. I frequently compose > emails while I'm disconnected (say on a train or in a coffeeshop) and > intentionally let the MTA queue them up. When I'm back online the MTA will > take of sending them without my worrying about it. It's not just laptops. Any machine with a dial-up connection where that connection is dial-on-demand really needs queueing. I've had a net connection like this since 1995 and have been using sendmail to do the queue handling all that time. When I bring up the link the queue gets flushed. Nice and simple. -- Dave Pearson: | mutt.octet.filter - autoview octet-streams http://www.davep.org/ | mutt.vcard.filter - autoview simple vcards Mutt: | muttrc2html - muttrc -> HTML utility http://www.davep.org/mutt/ | muttrc.sl - Jed muttrc mode