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Am Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:27:37 +0000 (UTC) |
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schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>: |
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> On 2015-06-08, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > However, the one thing that annoys me is that msmtp does not seem to have any |
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> > sort of queue [2], so if it can't deliver an email, it must be resent, which is |
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> > annoying for system emails. |
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> I've been using msmtp for many years, and I find I don't miss having |
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> an outbout mail queue. It turns out I just don't send e-mail when |
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> "offline". If I do try to send mail, and it fails, I actually like |
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> knowing about it imediately rather than finding out three days later |
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> that something's broken and nothing I've sent out in the past few days |
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> has actually been sent. |
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Perhaps I should have been more explicit about this (I did imply it), but I |
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use msmtp *only* for system emails, you know, from fcron, smtpd, portage, etc. |
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When offline, it would mean that msmtp simply times out and I only notice it |
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when looking through the logs. With portage it's not a problem, but with |
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something like smartd that only sends notifications very rarely, it can be bad. |
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However, Guy-Laurent's post made me aware of the msmtpq/msmtp-queue scripts |
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that are installed by msmtp (but not in PATH). I will investigate these ASAP. |
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Thanks |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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