Re: deferring sending mail

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

[...]

> If it is a specific time, maybe C-c C-j is useful:

[...]

> If you just want it queued until you are online again, maybe the MTA
> could handle that?

I use C-c C-j all the time.  My use case is:


1. fetch emails onto laptop,
2. get on train for long commute (either to or from work),
3. read and answer emails (using C-c C-j as I have a very simple MTA,
   one which doesn't queue emails, and I like it that way),
4. shut down laptop (for a number of reasons, I don't use
   suspend/hibernate),
5. get home/work and restart system including emacs,
6. start gnus, and
7. execute gnus-delay-send-queue.


I would like 7 to happen automatically upon 6 being done as I often
forget and my delayed emails sit there unsent.  My question is short:
which hook would be best to have gnus-delay-send-queue executed when
gnus starts?

The obvious would appear to be gnus-startup-hook but the documentation
is unclear as it refers to NNTP server...  Is this a holdover from the
view of Gnus for news alone?  The alternative is gnus-load-hook but in
this case the documentation doesn't make clear at what stage of the load
process this gets invoked ("a hook run while Gnus is loaded").  If
"while" were meant to be "once", this could be it?

Obviously I can try both and see what happens...  but I'm the train now
;-)

Thanks,
eric

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 + No Gnus v0.11