From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 16:25:38 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 03AEB16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:25:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B34143D2D for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:25:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from bsdbox.farid-hajji.net (bsdbox [192.168.254.3]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0604AD7E; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:25:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:25:38 +0100 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: Matthias Buelow Message-ID: <20041220162538.GA1206@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> References: <41C4FA1C.4090006@nbritton.org> <41C62755.2030705@mukappabeta.de> <20041220142110.GA845@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> <41C6EC86.5050203@mukappabeta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C6EC86.5050203@mukappabeta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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 16:25:38 -0000 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. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/