My experiences with Mutt to date: Suggestions for overcoming some issues

[boB Stepp]

On 21/02/13 08:03PM, Sam Kuper wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 01:30:04PM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote:

>> I did the same myself for years and also switched to ssmtp.  But I
>> belive ssmtp was discontinued, and now I'm using msmtp:
>>
>> 	https://marlam.de/msmtp/
>>
>> I couldn't be happier!
>
>A queue script is included with msmtp, so you can have the best of both
>worlds :)
>
>https://git.marlam.de/gitweb/?p=msmtp.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/msmtpq/README.msmtpq;hb=HEAD

I went ahead tonight and compiled msmtp from source to get version 1.8.14.  I
was previously on 1.8.8.  I did the steps suggested in the link you provided.
Everything worked well.  Then I thought I would test this queuing
functionality.  I disconnected from my network and sent a test email.  It
promptly popped up in the queue directory.  So far so good.  I reconnected to
my network and waited expectantly for the queued mails to be sent.  They just
sat there.  I looked through the source of the msmtpq script and AFAICT queued
emails will *not* be sent until the next attempt to send a mail.

So I tested this and sure enough the queue flushed itself and my earlier
queued email was sent.  As I do not consider myself competent in shell
scripting, am I reading the source correctly?  Is there an obvious way forward
to check periodically for regaining the network connection and flushing the
queue?  If there is built-in functionality to do this, I am not finding it.

TIA!

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Wishing you only the best,

boB Stepp