[GNU EMACS] smtpmail package and queue

Xavier Maillard xma at gnu.org
Wed Dec 1 20:50:33 PST 2010


Hi Philip,

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:38:24 +0000, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 03:01:47 +0100, first last <arian.kuschki at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > msmtp includes (at last in some distros I think) a script that enqeues mails
> > when you are offline and sends them when you are online. It is a drop-in
> > replacement for sendmail.
> 
> masqmail has this functionality built in, and can be configured to
> notice the internet connection going up and down, and kick the queue as
> you go online (although for some reason I cannot persuade it that my
> OpenVPN is online, even when it is, so have kludged it with cron kicking
> the queue regularly)

Thank you for your thoughts. That's interesting but I really want to
known how to do it with emacs built-in smtpmail.el. If it can't do it,
then I'll discard it in favor of either msmtp or this one.

Regards

/Xavier


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