On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 04:17:33PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
Why not run a local queuing SMTP server?
On a laptop computer? Doesn't make a lot of sense. It won't keep retrying to send the message while the laptop is disconnected from the Internet or suspended.
it makes perfect sense. the mail is queued immediately by the local MTA, allowing mutt or whatever to immediately get on with ITS job of enabling you to interact with your mail. the local MTA then delivers the mail when it gets a chance to do so. BTW, it's not uncommon for, e.g., ppp or wlan or dhcp startup scripts to include something like 'sendmail -q' to flush the queue as soon as the network is up.
Say if your laptop computer was lost or stolen.
that's what encrypted filesystems are for.
(even worse if you use the same password for more then just email services - e.g. if it is a Google account)
don't do that. really. that's just brain-damaged. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>