Re: making sendmail call to msmtp asynchronous?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 30 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Would it be possible just to dump the mail on msmtp, and have a
>>> callback that either pops up a buffer (for errors) or a message in the
>>> minibuffer (for success)? How difficult would that be?
>>
>> It sounds kinda complicated to me, and probably with not a lot of gain
>> to be had.  Unless you're sending massive amounts of massive emails.  :-)
>
> Fair enough!
>

I used to use msmtp to talk to gmail - amongst others.

The problem was the time it sometimes took - hanging gnus for upto 15
seconds or so.

(Linux solution)

So I went back to using exim4 : gnus dumps the send off to exim4 and
exim does its stuff in the bg.

Not without pain. Of course. Exim4 is up there with the worst when it
comes to "simple tweaks" and enabling exim4 for multiple smarthosts
proved impossible (for me) give or take despite some old configs out
there in google land for exim1-3 but not 4. Why not use exim4s smtp send
facility? Its a pain if you travel : here I sit on holiday and smtp
ports for outgoing are blocked by the ISP and/or the hotel router. Gah!

Using now only gmail servers I found a nice solution that might help
some others. Yes, use exim4 smarthost. Use one of your gmail smtp
servers for outgoing and so configure that in your exim4 smarthost
setup. Normally it rewrites your "from" address to that of the owner of
the smtp account. You an stop this by granting permission to other gmail
accounts to use this account on its behalf. So if on account A I allow
account B access then account B's "from address" may be listed in the
outgoing email sent by A's SMTP server. This option is in
account/additional email users via the gmail web interface. 

http://www.besttechie.net/2010/03/27/how-to-use-gmail-for-multiple-email-accounts/

This is not without risk if you're being spammy/trolling etc as the
header details will still reveal the account name/owner of the SMTP
server. I guess the solution in that case if you dont want that is to
simply create an "anonymous" gmail account in order just to use that
smtp service for that account from your other gmail accounts.

Still, its another option and "works for me".