Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
I've had good luck with nullmailer (to bounce everything through a smarthost) and exim (as the smarthost). -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu

Re: Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

2017-06-12 Thread Oleg A. Mamontov
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 03:58:27PM +0200, Georg Faerber wrote: On 17-06-13 05:53:26, Yubin Ruan wrote: offlineimap is not stable, I would say. It cannot handle non-latin characters properly. And if your mailboxes are huge, it seems to go into a infinite loop... So have a look at isync /

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-12 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 08:14:31AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:33:18AM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: >> >> Fortunately configuring Postfix is simple; either as easy or easier >> than configuring Mutt. > > Friendly and helpful support from the Postix mailing list too.

Re: Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

2017-06-12 Thread Georg Faerber
On 17-06-13 05:53:26, Yubin Ruan wrote: > offlineimap is not stable, I would say. It cannot handle non-latin > characters properly. And if your mailboxes are huge, it seems to go > into a infinite loop... So have a look at isync / mbsync. Cheers, Georg signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

2017-06-12 Thread Yubin Ruan
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Georg Faerber wrote: > On 17-06-12 02:05:41, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > There is only problem I found when testing Postfix + mutt: I uses > > Postfix for smtp and mutt deals with imap for me. But mutt will freeze > > when the network is off. Therefore, you can

Re: Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

2017-06-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.06.17 02:05, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Thanks my friend. Postfix works pretty well :-) > > There is only problem I found when testing Postfix + mutt: I uses > Postfix for smtp and mutt deals with imap for me. That is the problem, then. Many of us use fetchmail (or similar) to handle the imap or

Re: Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

2017-06-11 Thread Georg Faerber
On 17-06-12 02:05:41, Yubin Ruan wrote: > There is only problem I found when testing Postfix + mutt: I uses > Postfix for smtp and mutt deals with imap for me. But mutt will freeze > when the network is off. Therefore, you can not do anything at that > time, let alone sending email. > > Any

Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

2017-06-11 Thread Yubin Ruan
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 08:14:31AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:33:18AM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:50:01PM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: > > >> > > >> I do the same thing,

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-11 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:33:18AM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:50:01PM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: > >> > >> I do the same thing, except the Postfix instance on the laptop is > >> configured to relay

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-10 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Cameron Simpson [06-10-17 18:44]: [...] > 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 >

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Jun2017 05:22, Yubin Ruan 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

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:50:01PM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: >> >> I do the same thing, except the Postfix instance on the laptop is >> configured to relay through the Postfix instance on the MX server. >> Basically because the

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-10 Thread Yubin Ruan
> > 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

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-10 Thread Yubin Ruan
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:35:19AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:42:42AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > Hi mutt users, > > > > Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background > > without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:50:01PM +1000, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:56:52PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I use postfix which, while it is a full-blown SMTP server, isn't > > difficult to configure (well I managed it!). Postfix will queue > > outgoing mail so its

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:42:42AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi mutt users, > > Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background > without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming with > mutt's default smtp. I would like to have a sendmail script that

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:56:52PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > I use postfix which, while it is a full-blown SMTP server, isn't > difficult to configure (well I managed it!). Postfix will queue > outgoing mail so its sendmail responds instantly and I never see any > delays from mutt. I do the

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Joerg Dorchain
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:42:42AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi mutt users, > > Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background > without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming with > mutt's default smtp. I would like to have a sendmail script that

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:42:42AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi mutt users, > > Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background > without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming with > mutt's default smtp. I would like to have a sendmail script that

Re: sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, junio 10, 2017 a las 04:42:42a. m. +0800, Yubin Ruan escribió: > and my .muttrc like this: > > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" > # don't wait for msmtp to complete. Let it run at background > set sendmail_wait=-1 > > But there some problems with this solution: > >

sendmail in background?

2017-06-09 Thread Yubin Ruan
Hi mutt users, Hmm...do any of you have any solution for sending emails in background without hanging up your mutt? I am getting annoyed by the delay coming with mutt's default smtp. I would like to have a sendmail script that would queue up my all my emails from mutt and send it at proper time