From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 15:15:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB9016A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:15:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18C143D31 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:15:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (p548534E7.dip.t-dialin.net [84.133.52.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200382D6A; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:10:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41C6EC86.5050203@mukappabeta.de> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:15:18 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cpghost@cordula.ws References: <41C4FA1C.4090006@nbritton.org> <41C62755.2030705@mukappabeta.de> <20041220142110.GA845@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20041220142110.GA845@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Nikolas Britton cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:15:10 -0000 cpghost@cordula.ws 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. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de