On Fri, 02 Mar 2001, Erika Pacholleck wrote:
> ( Fre, 02 Mär 2001 ) tompoe <-- :
> >
> > So, if someone could describe briefly just what happens when I enter "y" to
> > send message?
>
> I do not use Suse and no sendmail but postfix, but its slightly equal,
> so flatly spoken:
> - mutt calls that command which you specify in the muttrc with "set sendmail="
> - if you are offline your mail ends up in /var/spool/mqueue or another subdir
> - these are in postfix defer/ and deferred/ because it cannot be delivered
> - as the host you are sending to cannot yet be reached
> - search for a file there which is named in ramdom numbers and letters
> - another indication is that as normal user you might not have rights to read
> - you can open the file as root or whoever has the right to do that
> - then you can check the contents (you get used to reading that ;) )
>
> if you configured in muttrc that you keep a message you sent
> - the y-ned message will be added to your ~/.mutt/sent or whatever you defined
>
> if you then go online you can (only root can do this, at least with postfix)
> - send the queued mail immediately with "sendmail -q"
> - if you want to do that as user you best write yourself as script for that
>
> just in case you have a permanent access to the internet
> - in that case the message also is send out by your sendmail command but
> - sendmail sees the open line to the internet and uses it
> - the host you are sending to is known and reachable - and gone it is
>
> Similar happens if you make yourself a testuser (mine is called Albert.Twostone).
> For first tests I wrote my messages to albert@myhostname. This has the advantage
> you can see it immediately if you login as albert and have him fire up mutt. Now
> albert might forward, reply, attach or do whatever he wants.
>
> Hope this helps a bit
> Erika
WOW! Good stuff! Thank you all, and know that I truly appreciate the
responses. Have a happy weekend, Your friend, I remain, Tom
