Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>]

On 14 apr 2003, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
>Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>>Now then, if you've severed your connection to the net, how do you
>>intend to send your mail?
>
>Some people have an MTA on their machine which is able to queue mail
>while offline.  Then the dialup script (or something like this) sends
>the queued mails when connecting to the net.

This is the default setup on Debian machines.  (It's not hard; if you
have a reasonable MTA then it will deal with not being able to contact
remote hosts right away.  The only `special' handling you need is to
flush the mail queue from your ip-up script.)

I used to have exactly this problem; I got some advice a couple of
years ago from Kai (I think) which solved it for me.  Unfortunately I
stopped using the Agent in the meanwhile so I can't work out what the
solution was.

>(That's how my Postfix setup works -- I use laptop-net to find out
>whether there is a net connection.  But I still use the Agent to
>queue mails inside Gnus -- that seemed to be easier to do.)

I think there ought to be an option to control whether or not the
agent should queue mail--it seems easy to add, and it's clearly
useful.

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Gaute Strokkenes                        http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
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