so spake Jens Paulus [2004.03.05 @ 16:51]: > Hi Dave, > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 17:08:20 -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > You can run your own sendmail (or qmail, or whatever) installation, > > owned by you, with a spool tree under your own $HOME, if you want. > > alright. > > > With an MTA like sendmail, that's easy to setup without a single > > keystroke. You can have sendmail automatically do a queue run every > > time it notices you've connected to the Internet. Alternatively, if > > you're rarely offline for more than a few hours at a time, the default > > sendmail config will try to send your mail every 15 minutes for a few > > hours before starting to give up hope. > > Yes, that is right. The default configuration tries sending regularly. > > > However, if you must do this from within Mutt, it's fairly trivial to > > write a $sendmail script that'll simply append messages to =outbox or > > whatever, and then write a little macro to pipe each message in =outbox > > to the real sendmail, at which point it'd go under the control of the > > MTA anyway, so I fail to see what you'd gain. > > Alright. > > > Ewww ... please don't try to overload the postponed folder. . . > > I did not know that it causes problems to make much use of this folder. > Normally I assume that a folder is theoretically no limited on the size. i think what dave meant by 'overload' was not putting too much stuff in the folder, but rather, using the postponed folder for more than one purpose. in other words, the postponed folder is for unfinished mails, not for postponed mail delivery. -- ste\/e
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