On 11Nov2011 21:46, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: | On 2011-11-11, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: | > On 11Nov2011 12:21, Martin Kj???r J???rgensen <m...@gotu.dk> wrote: | >| Is there a way to make mutt listen or wait for msmtp succeeding or | >| failing, and react accordingly? (or any other MTA for that matter) | > | > Another method is to write a tiny shell script that calls | > sendmail/msmtp/etc. If it fails, file the message in your "unsent" | > folder. | | And then you could queue up an "at" or "cron" job to try to resend | unsent e-mails a few hours later. And then you could notify the user | if it fails after N tries in M days. And then... pretty soon you've | written a really crappy MTA. :) | | IMO, if you don't want to wait to see if the send failed/succeeded, | you shouldn't be using msmtp -- you should be using postfix or one of | its pals. Except for sendmail. sendmail is nobody's pal.
I confess that I always run a postfix on my local machine for exactly these reasons. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ We need a taxonomy for 'printing-that-is-no-longer-printing.' - overhead by WIRED at the Intelligent Printing conference Oct2006
