On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:42:42AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi mutt users, > > Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background > without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming with > mutt's default smtp. I would like to have a sendmail script that would queue > up my all my emails from mutt and send it at proper time and if it fails, it > will notify me with a failure status or failure messages. > > Currently I have a msmtp set up, with its .msmtprc like this: > > account default > host smtp.gmail.com > from <mysendaddresshere> > auth on > port 587 > user <myaccounthere> > password <mypasswordhere> > protocol smtp > logfile ~/.msmtp.log > tls on > tls_starttls on > tls_nocertcheck > > and my .muttrc like this: > > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" > # don't wait for msmtp to complete. Let it run at background > set sendmail_wait=-1 > > But there some problems with this solution: > > 1. the "sendmail_wait=-1" doesn't seems work? > 2. when I cutt off my network connection, mutt cannot sendmail anymore. > It just hang up there infinitely and I have to Ctrl-C... > I use postfix which, while it is a full-blown SMTP server, isn't difficult to configure (well I managed it!). Postfix will queue outgoing mail so its sendmail responds instantly and I never see any delays from mutt.
-- Chris Green
