On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:00:10AM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> >Sounds like you're trying too hard here. With sendmail (insert your MTA
> >of choice here as I'm sure they all work in a similar way) all I simply
> >need to do is type "mailq" and I can see what's still in the queue a
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:48:23PM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> >When I bring up the link the queue gets flushed. Nice and simple.
>
> That's my problem with queueing MTAs: if the link goes down before the MTA
> relays the emails (e.g., my connection is accidently dropped while I a
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joane Lispton wrote:
> To sum it up, when it comes to the trade-off between
>
> - doing all the queueing manually, and knowing (from within mutt) that mail
> has been successfully relayed
>
> and
>
> - having a MTA do the queueing for me, yet, if I wish to make sure that
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:43:02PM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote:
> It's not just laptops. Any machine with a dial-up connection where that
> connection is dial-on-demand really needs queueing. [SNIP]
That should have read "/isn't/ dial-in-demand".
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:49:15PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:49:27PM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote:
>
> > So, if, e.g., the PPP link is down and I haven't noticed that, mutt will
> > tell me that my email has been sent, while it is actually stored in some
> > directory
