On May 20, 3:46 pm, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use vm with smtpmail to send mail. when on a slow wireless > > connection, sending 20Mb attachments can take over 10 minutes. I am > > wondering if there is a way to get some progress indicator, such as a > > continuously updating "percent uploaded" in the echo area? > > You could try the patch below. > > > also, smtp fails quite often, and then I am left with the outgoing > > mail buffer. > > Do you happen to know why? > > > I can press c-c c-c to try again and that works in most cases, but > > then it adds the message to the outgoing folder again, so I need to > > erase the .FCC line by hand. wouldn't it be good if a failed message > > was automatically put in "outgoing folder" such as a queued- mail > > directory, and then sent at a later time? perhaps when smtpmail is > > called again to send another message? > > That seems to be specific to VM, so I'll let the VM crowd handle it. > > Stefan > > === modified file 'lisp/mail/smtpmail.el' > --- lisp/mail/smtpmail.el 2011-02-12 17:51:02 +0000 > +++ lisp/mail/smtpmail.el 2011-05-20 12:44:28 +0000
thanks, fantastic! what version of emacs can I apply this patch to? I tried trunk and it failed, although I may have done this incorrectly. cheers, E
