On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:35:19AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:42:42AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > Hi mutt users, > > > > Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background > > without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming with > > mutt's default smtp. I would like to have a sendmail script that would queue > > up my all my emails from mutt and send it at proper time and if it fails, it > > will notify me with a failure status or failure messages. > > > > Currently I have a msmtp set up, with its .msmtprc like this: > > > > account default > > host smtp.gmail.com > > from <mysendaddresshere> > > auth on > > port 587 > > user <myaccounthere> > > password <mypasswordhere> > > protocol smtp > > logfile ~/.msmtp.log > > tls on > > tls_starttls on > > tls_nocertcheck > > > > and my .muttrc like this: > > > > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" > > # don't wait for msmtp to complete. Let it run at background > > set sendmail_wait=-1 > > > > But there some problems with this solution: > > > > 1. the "sendmail_wait=-1" doesn't seems work? > > 2. when I cutt off my network connection, mutt cannot sendmail anymore. > > It just hang up there infinitely and I have to Ctrl-C... > > > > Any suggestion? > > my .muttrc contains this: > > #set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -ob" > set sendmail_wait=-1
How do you configure your /usr/bin/sendmain? It seems like that without `sendmail' that sendmail_wait does not take effect and I still get delays when sending mails. /Yubin > While I am now using a full-time connection (cable modem) years ago > I was on a dialup system, and I don't think I've changed those settings > since then, and it all just magically worked. > > I certainly don't get long delays when sending mail from mutt. It > seems to just queue them up, though sending a mail from mutt also seems > to trigger sendmail to connect and send, mutt doesn't make me wait > while it does that.
