(This might turn out to be the wrong place to post this, but I decided to do so in case anyone has some useful suggestions for this)
Dear all, One of the accounts I use mutt with is setup with offlineimap to download the email, and msmtp to send it. Yesterday, the smtp server I use with that account (gmail's smtp) was unavailable during the afternoon. However, when I sent an email from mutt, neither mutt nor msmtp reported an error. In fact, mutt displayed the familiar "Mail sent" message in the lower left corner. And what's worse, the mail I was just composing was *gone*! Not sent to the recipient, but also not stored anywhere locally. This scenario was reproducible, and the behaviour was always the same. To prevent this problem in the future, I have set record to store all sent mail to a local folder (that I can clean up afterwords). In gmail's case this works well because it will ensure (if it's functioning properly...) that your sent mail will end up in the proper "sent_mail" folder. And I would very much rather have two copies of an important mail than none at all. If anyone happens to be using the same type of setup, have you ever encountered this scenario? And if so, how do you cope with it? Thanks in advance! --Óscar -- Óscar Pereira | https://erroneousthoughts.org Rules of Optimisation: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson
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