From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior? Date: 30 Jan 2004 15:46:25 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877jzn2lk8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87oesmt61r.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075476219 18040 80.91.224.253 (30 Jan 2004 15:23:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 30 16:23:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmaUX-0008WS-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:23:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmaUX-0007sE-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:23:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmaU1-0003Lg-2M for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmaT6-00039o-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmaSU-0002Yi-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmaSA-0002BT-GQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmaRF-0005lN-E3; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:20:09 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19577 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19577 Stefan Monnier writes: > > Also, I'm not sure it's relevant (or even feasible with emacs current > > code), and I don't use any of these systems myself, but it seems like > > a lot of other MUAs just queue up the outgoing mail themselves and > > either send it via SMTP, either on-demand or in the background, and > > they treat messages that haven't made it out yet in much the same way > > that emacs treats unsaved buffers -- if you try to quit, they ask you > > about them. For people who have a properly configured > > postfix/sendmail/exim/whatever queuing arrangement, this might not be > > interesting, but for others, perhaps. > > It's not really relevant since this thread is about sendmail.el > (i.e. sending mail with an external MTA) whereas what you're suggesting is > to do the mail sending ourselves, which is what smtpmail.el does > (i.e. you're suggesting to add queue management to smtpmail.el). Like (setq smtpmail-queue-mail t) does? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum