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[Mutt] #2890: SMTP support: "...sending in background"

#2890: SMTP support: "...sending in background"

 mutt version 1.5.15 plus several patches (none affecting SMTP)

 I'm using the newly introduced SMTP support, using the config variable
 $smtp_url.

 Now, my server seems flakey or slow or both. *shrug* After a while of
 status message "Contacting smtp.domain.tld...", I get the status message
 "Sending in background."

 I have no idea what mutt does or can do in the background. A sendmail
 process can be detached, but an SMTP delivery? To a new thread?

 So, in fact, that mail never arrives. And it is lost, I cannot reedit it
 (not from TMPDIR either), because mutt considers it "gone".

 This is hard to reproduce (I have no control over the server of course
 ;->). Giving a bogus $smtp_url to a non-relaying, non-SMTP host correctly
 returns with a connection error (or something like that), and takes me
 back to the message compose area.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2890>