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

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

Comment (by Kyle Wheeler):

 {{{
 On Wednesday, May 16 at 01:40 PM, quoth Mutt:
 > 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".

 A workaround is to set $sendmail_wait to 0.

 ~Kyle
 }}}

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