On 11Jun2017 05:22, Yubin Ruan <[email protected]> wrote:
> my .muttrc contains this:
> #set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -ob"
> set sendmail_wait=-1
How do you configure your /usr/bin/sendmain? It seems like that without
`sendmail' that sendmail_wait does not take effect and I still get delays when
sending mails.
One awkward thing is, with the configuration
set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -ob"
set sendmail_wait=-1
things work pretty well, but I don't know how this magic happen, because I
never configure my /usr/sbin/sendmail and it know my SMTP address and
password...?
Then presumably your local mail system is sending SMTP directly to the target
mail servers, and not using your ISP's SMTP server. (That is all your ISP's
server is doing anyway.)
Have a look in /var/log for recently modified files - your mail system should
be logging that it sent the email, and to whom it was delivered.
Many of us configure our local mail systems to use a "smarthost", which is
nothing more than an upstream SMTP server to take our email. This is largely
because is it not uncommon for ISP's to prevent direct outbound SMTP from their
clients, a legacy of spambots. It your email is getting through then your ISP
is not getting in the way.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
