On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 07:04:14PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
I have seen mutt hang indefinitely when the connection to the outgoing SMTP server dies (actually not sure what happened, possibly the server died), which in turn resulted in me loosing my outgoing email when I had to kill mutt. So maybe don't use SMTP with mutt unless you can trust the connection and server.
That's one of the reasons for running an MTA like postfix or exim. It's not mutt's job, or any MUA's job, to handle queueing and multiple delivery attempts for mail. An MUA should hand the mail to an MTA and forget about it. The MTA will queue the mail and attempt delivery as many times as it takes until it either succeeds or the delivery times out (in which case it will bounce it back to the sender with an "unable to deliver" message). the timeout is configurable, but defaults to around 5 days. mutt's SMTP capability is best used with a smart-host (either the localhost or elsewhere on the local network), not for direct delivery to the final destination host. ditto for any other MUA. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>