On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Claus Assmann <mutt+us...@esmtp.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, Xu Wang wrote: > >> I use mutt's built-in SMTP client. I would like to press 'y' and >> immediately be able to move on to my next email without waiting. I > > Did you check the fine manual? > > 3.234. sendmail_wait > > Type: number > Default: 0 > > Specifies the number of seconds to wait for the $sendmail process to finish > before giving up and putting delivery in the background. > > Mutt interprets the value of this variable as follows: > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > |>0|number of seconds to wait for sendmail to finish before continuing| > |--+------------------------------------------------------------------| > |0 |wait forever for sendmail to finish | > |--+------------------------------------------------------------------| > |<0|always put sendmail in the background without waiting | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Note that if you specify a value other than 0, the output of the child process > will be put in a temporary file. If there is some error, you will be informed > as to where to find the output. >
Thank you very much Claus. I did not check manual (I have read it two times all the way through before, but I forget details). Thank you for walking me through it and getting started. For more details I will read manual. Kind regards! Xu
