migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

[cpghost at cordula.ws]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:15:18PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> cpghost at cordula.ws wrote:
> 
> >esmtp will contact the appropriate SMTP server on your behalf
> >and will use the correct credentials to connect (if required).
> 
> What happens if sending fails (for whatever temporary reason)?  Will 
> esmtp queue the mail, like a real MTA would?  The issue is problematic 
> with all those "minimalistic" pseudo-MTAs because mutt thinks it's 
> delivering to a real sendmail, and hence doesn't handle failure 
> gracefully (at least not afair).  Mozilla otoh, initiating the smtp 
> connection by itself, will let you retry, or save it to a Drafts folder. 
>  With mutt, your mail is probably gone.

Indeed. That's really a problem. I wished mutt would include libESMTP
as a compile/configure option, and thus queue unsent mails in a dedicated
mailbox. I don't think that it would be very difficult to merge libESMTP
into mutt anyway. It's a mystery why it didn't happen yet :)

> -- 
>   Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de

Regards,
-cpghost.

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