On Monday August 19 2002 09:47 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
> et wrote:
> > I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some
> > long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I
> > now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be
> > found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a
> > cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let
> > the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent.
>
> I'm curious -- are you using a local email server (like postfix) or
> is kmail configured to send mail direct to your isp (via smtp).
> IIUC, a way to tell is to check your kmail configuration -- is it set
> to use smtp to your ISP?
>
> (Reason I ask is that I know postfix (and most other email servers)
> will hold mail for an "exponential delay" after a failed attempt to
> send. But, I guess the email would be gone from your outbox in any
> case -- it might just come back in 5 days and say "failed to deliver
> after 5 days" (approximately).)
>
> Randy Kramer
I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current
bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's
mail server times out (eg, "no host..."), and Kmail just keeps the
post(s) stored in the Outbox folder. I run into this all the time with
my 56k dialup while I've got d/l's going. Two solutions, keep trying
until the send finally succeeds, or use a d/l manager like Downloader
for X (d4x) which allows you to 'throttle' down your d/l speed till
while you're tryin to send/get mail. One of the main reasons I like d4x
so much ;)
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