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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:38:35 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail && dhcp
Message-ID:  <20150227213834.GA2324@c720-r276659>
In-Reply-To: <54f0dc41.NVD2hFGwt9XGczfB%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <20150226144245.GA1346@c720-r276659> <44bnkgsmcl.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150226194012.GA2695@c720-r276659> <4461aoe96j.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150226203154.GA2853@c720-r276659> <44k2z4ci8y.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <54efe697.xdtSCVZsiZDqV7lP%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20150227130145.GA3591@c720-r276659> <54f0dc41.NVD2hFGwt9XGczfB%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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El día Friday, February 27, 2015 a las 01:06:09PM -0800, Perry Hutchison escribió:

> > To read and write I'm using mutt as MUA. mutt can fetch with IMAP(S) and
> > send with SMTP+SSL; but this (sending directly) is not what I want, I
> > want to queue up the outbound mails and send them at once (see above for
> > the reason); so, sendmail is the natural option; 
> 
> Indeed, but that does not necessarily mean that you need a sendmail
> *daemon*.  I haven't used mutt, but I have the impression that it is
> capable of invoking sendmail directly (via fork/exec, passing the
> message on stdin) rather than having to keep a daemon running all
> the time to accept the occasional SMTP connection on 127.0.0.1:25.
> In fact, depending on how you have it configured, mutt may
> *currently* be running a sendmail process (via fork/exec) for each
> message you send, rather than using the local sendmail daemon.

mutt uses sendmail (i.e. pipes the mail to something like 'sendmail -t -f ....)
which queues the mail for further delivery; and this is what I want:
queue all the answered mails until I open the Wifi uplink and all
answers are going out at once. I think, this is only possible with a
configured sendmail daemon and queue runner.

	matthias

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