Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:25:38 +0100 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt? Message-ID: <20041220162538.GA1206@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <41C6EC86.5050203@mukappabeta.de> References: <41C4FA1C.4090006@nbritton.org> <41C62755.2030705@mukappabeta.de> <20041220142110.GA845@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> <41C6EC86.5050203@mukappabeta.de>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:15:18PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> 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.
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; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de
Regards,
-cpghost.
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