Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

While I agree with the intent, I don't like the idea of changing the
definition of gnus-plugged to cover every back-end EXCEPT imap.

I think that it would be better to change the code such that the
plugged status per server can be configured to either 1) always
plugged, 2) never plugged , or 3) plugged when gnus-plugged is t.

We're in the middle of a feature freeze right now.  I'll hang on to
this to consider later.

Kevin