Re: sent all the postponed messages with one command
On 05-05 14:19, Jens Paulus wrote:
> Hi Vlad,
>
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 20:08:25 +0200, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
> > I answer than the mails (but in this time I'm not online anymore), and
> > then press q (for postponed) and not y (for imediately send), because my
> > connection is cut to this time.
> > Is this wrong?
>
I suggest you looking into the configuration of your MTA. At home, I've
got only an RTC connection, so the MTA is set up to queue all outbound
messages. A command in /etc/ip-up tells it to flush the queue, and
another calls fetchmail. The users need not know whether they're online
or not. They just hit "Send" (in kmail|thunderbird|...) or "y" (in
mutt), and the message will be sent next time the system goes online, or
immediately if it is.
Postponing should be used for those emails that take more that 5 minutes
to write. If you cannot finish them in one session, postponing enables
you to finish them later. But queuing the ready-to-be-sent emails until
the IP is brought up, is definitely not the MUA's job.
For what it's worth.
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