On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 06:32:41AM -0800, Andrew Marks wrote:
Primarily speed, not waiting for mutt to establish an SMTP connection and authenticate to a remote MTA. The mail is sent to the local MTA instantly, and the local MTA is working to relay the mail appropriately while I continue working in mutt.
I was thinking about this. I have offlineimap running, so I have a local copy of all my mail, but the SMTP connection still goes through my mail provider, not locally. While I can appreciate the increase in speed that a local rely can offer, I wonder if it doesn't add another layer of complexity as I would have to be monitoring the logs to make sure the e-mail was actually sent. How does it work when the remote e-mail server is not available or it returns some kind of error. Can one receive local messages that notify of a problem?
So far I like my current solution because it avoid this: sending an e-mail takes a few seconds (very few, 2 - 3 tops) but when the process is done on mutt I know the remote server has the e-mail.
Cheers, -- José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org
