On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 04:05:55PM +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Hello Sam, many thanks for your interesting response!
:) > Sam Kuper (2022/08/11 17:43 +0000): >> Consider using msmtp for sending, and msmtp-queue for queueing: >> >> https://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20210208/002485.html > > My understanding is that, on one side, mutt would call msmtp-queue as > a replacement for sendmail Yes > and that, on the other side, msmtp needs to somehow be called on a > regular basis to try to send the messages that are in the queue, if > network is available. Is this understanding correct? `msmtp-queue -r` tells msmtp to try to send the emails from msmtp-queue's queue to your mail provider's SMTP server. In order for that to succeed, you need to have a network connection - otherwise the attempt will time-out and the queued mails will stay in msmtp-queue's queue so that you can try again later. So, you can: - Manually run `msmtp-queue -r` when you know you have an internet connection, or - Set up a cron-job to run `msmtp-queue -r` according to your preferred schedule (e.g. every 2 minutes), or - Some combination of the two (i.e. have a cron-job set up, but manually invoke `msmtp-queue -r` on occasions when you don't want to wait for the next cron time-point). It's your choice. > Also, given how important e-mail is, I am a bit worried about the > transition: any advice on how to switch from exim4 to this new set-up > as smoothly as possible and without risking to be unable to send > e-mail for some time? Here is what I would do in that situation: - Read msmtp and msmtp-queue's documentation. - Install and configure msmtp. - Test/tweak/re-test msmtp until working. (E.g. using Mutt or GNU Mailutils's `mail` command to send emails from the command-line, with relevant command-line options set so as to ensure that msmtp is used as the MTA). Hopefully it would work first time, if configured correctly and if your computer has a suitable internet connection. - Install msmtp-queue (it comes bundled with msmtp IIRC) and configure it, including setting up a cron-job if you want one. - Test/tweak/re-test msmtp-queue (similarly to testing msmtp). - Edit your muttrc to tell Mutt to use msmtp-queue instead of Exim. - Check to see if you have anything else installed that depends on Exim. - If so, either leave it as is (probably) or find another solution for those things (if you really want to - but Exim is good for its intended use case). - If not, then uninstall Exim. Good luck! Sam
