From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior? Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:35:54 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877jzn2lk8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <16401.5059.249741.523854@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <16404.63472.223534.499091@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <876E93D9-5003-11D8-BC55-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <16405.6371.146753.920453@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <9F0108AE-5006-11D8-BAB0-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <16405.8160.368983.564809@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <6F619120-500B-11D8-A6B1-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <16405.9268.441328.994164@chiark.greenend.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075130106 19375 80.91.224.253 (26 Jan 2004 15:15:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Simon Josefsson , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 26 16:14:53 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 1Al8Rx-000085-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Al8Rx-00082e-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:14:53 +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 1Al7vL-0004Ak-RG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:41:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Al7uI-0003bu-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Al7rM-0002Ib-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:37:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.115.192.53] (helo=mail2.norrnet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Al7rL-0002Hu-HK; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com (stubby.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.94]) by mail2.norrnet.net (BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall) with ESMTP id 5526857090; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:37:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i0QFSqpi024419; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:28:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <16405.9268.441328.994164@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Original-To: Ian Jackson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) 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:19490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19490 > Jan D. writes ("Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior?"): >> Actually, I have mail-interactive set to t, I forgot about that. >> What about setting timeouts to a lower value, wouldn't that help? > > Timeouts, what timeouts ? Does Emacs have a timeout ? No, but sendmail has. > > Changing the timeouts in your MTA is probably not a good idea (except > perhaps as part of configuring it as a hub-based client - see my other > mail). Since the reason not to deliver in the foreground per default is that it might hang, changing the MTA timeout for foreground delivery sounds like a way forward. At least you know when things fail. Jan D.