Re: Bizarre problem - lockup sending mail

[Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net>]

>>>> Kai Großjohann writes:
    Kai> Hm.  So maybe what you want now is something that does the
    Kai> sending in the background.  People report that Hamster is a
    Kai> nice program.  Its main purpose is to act as a local NNTP
    Kai> server, but it also groks POP3 and SMTP I think.  I guess
    Kai> that you can just tell Gnus to send mail to Hamster and let
    Kai> it take care of sending the stuff out.

I'll give hamster a try (assuming there's a windows version).

    Kai> Another alternative might be to queue the mail using
    Kai> smtpmail.el, maybe then you don't have to wait 3 mins for
    Kai> every mail.  But maybe you do.  -- ~/.signature

I'd heard about this earlier but assumed at some point I'd need to
actually send the queued mails at which time I'd still suffer the
delay.  Since I don't send enough mail to warrant queueing I didn't
try this.

Hamster seems promising though.  I wonder how it reports failures?
Would it just log them and I'd have to check a log to make sure emails
were getting out fine?