From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bts@evenmere.org, 34177@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:42:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37e8r570v.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o9233v3k.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:45:35 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> IMO, this should at least say in the echo area that it's retrying,
> probably with the number of retries.
Yup. And perhaps there should be a `(sleep-for 1)' in there...
> Bonus points for doing that from a separate thread or a timer.
> smtpmail locks up Emacs too much already, when the network is busy.
Yeah, it'd be very, very nice if the entire thing was asynchronous. I
vaguely remember somebody talking about trying to make the entire thing
run from a separate thread (in Emacs versions with support for that)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 4:09 bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors Brian Sniffen
2019-07-09 18:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 19:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-09-16 21:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-16 23:17 ` Brian Sniffen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-09-16 23:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-17 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-17 11:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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