Re: [feature req] Configurable behaviour after MTA failure

2001-05-19 Thread Dave Pearson
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:00:10AM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote: Hi Dave, Sounds like you're trying too hard here. With sendmail (insert your MTA of choice here as I'm sure they all work in a similar way) all I simply need to do is type mailq and I can see what's still in the queue and why.

Re: [feature req] Configurable behaviour after MTA failure

2001-05-18 Thread Dave Pearson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:49:15PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:49:27PM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote: So, if, e.g., the PPP link is down and I haven't noticed that, mutt will tell me that my email has been sent, while it is actually stored in some directory on my

Re: [feature req] Configurable behaviour after MTA failure

2001-05-18 Thread Dave Pearson
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:43:02PM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: It's not just laptops. Any machine with a dial-up connection where that connection is dial-on-demand really needs queueing. [SNIP] That should have read /isn't/ dial-in-demand. -- Dave Pearson: | mutt.octet.filter -

Re: [feature req] Configurable behaviour after MTA failure

2001-05-18 Thread Dan Boger
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joane Lispton wrote: To sum it up, when it comes to the trade-off between - doing all the queueing manually, and knowing (from within mutt) that mail has been successfully relayed and - having a MTA do the queueing for me, yet, if I wish to make sure that

Re: [feature req] Configurable behaviour after MTA failure

2001-05-18 Thread Dave Pearson
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:48:23PM +0530, Joane Lispton wrote: Hi Dave, When I bring up the link the queue gets flushed. Nice and simple. That's my problem with queueing MTAs: if the link goes down before the MTA relays the emails (e.g., my connection is accidently dropped while I am in