Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org> wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>>>   http://tapoueh.org/blog/2010/09/23-postfix-sender_dependent_relayhost_maps.html
>>
>> Thanks for that. There are other alternatives such as using msmtp. But
>> they are a nuisance because they require installing and configuring
>> another tool for something that Emacs is capable of doing.
>
> The problem with msmtp is both that it hangs emacs while sending the
> email, and that on delivery error you have to handle it yourself.  The
> reason why I so much prefer postfix here is that it will queue the
> outgoing mail then deliver it in the background, and it will manage the
> delivery queue and retry if necessary.
>

same issue with smtpmail as well.

> See also my mailq mode that allows me to quickly see if I have to force
> a send retry and to flush my postfix queue all from Emacs.
>
>  http://tapoueh.org/blog/2011/05/05-mailq-modeline-display.html
>  http://tapoueh.org/emacs/mailq.html
>
>> The point is there is one key feature that has been accidentally deleted
>> during the rewrite of smtpmail. This thread is about whether and how
>> should we bring it back.
>
> That's a whole other problem here, agreed.
>

Agree.