Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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?

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