From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74855 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deferring sending mail Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:44:15 +0100 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: References: <8762v4wded.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291826704 17564 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23212@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 08 17:44:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQN8U-0000hD-Jg for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:44:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PQN89-00034o-2G; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:44:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PQN87-00034d-CT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:44:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQN85-0008N2-Hi for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:44:34 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PQN84-0005EA-00 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:44:32 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQN84-0000Rg-H9 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:44:32 +0100 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net ([81.56.191.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:44:32 +0100 Original-Received: from rpluim by lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:44:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FC6Jwr9IVyuC0oCtomaw7p+Lq5I= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74855 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:09:18 +0100, Robert wrote: > >> is there a better way to defer sending mail than setting >> gnus-agent-queue-mail to 'always? > > Does C-c C-d do what you want? > > ,----[ C-h k C-c C-d ] > | C-c C-d runs the command message-dont-send, which is an interactive > | compiled Lisp function in `message.el'. > | > | It is bound to C-c C-d, . > | > | (message-dont-send) > | > | Don't send the message you have been editing. > | Instead, just auto-save the buffer and then bury it. > | > | [back] > `---- > >> I supposed I could just use the drafts group, but then I have to enter >> that group manually and send from there, and I'm a forgetful chap. > > Oh, then C-c C-d probably wont help you. When do you want it sent, then? > When emacs is not doing anything else (ideally it would do it in the background without interfering with anything else, but I guess I'll have to wait for multi-threading for that ;-) ). I'll see if it's possible to get the demon to send the draft messages. > If you just want it queued until you are online again, maybe the MTA > could handle that? If I was on a platform with an MTA, a lot of things would be simpler, unfortunately I'm stuck on Windows, so all this has to happen in the MUA. Thanks for the suggestions Robert