Re: smtp issues: progress indicator and gracious failure

[Uday Reddy]

On 5/20/2011 1:46 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > I can press c-c c-c to try again and that works in most cases, but
> > then it adds the message to the outgoing folder again, so I need to
> > erase the .FCC line by hand.  wouldn't it be good if a failed message
> > was automatically put in "outgoing folder" such as a queued- mail
> > directory, and then sent at a later time?  perhaps when smtpmail is
> > called again to send another message?
>
> That seems to be specific to VM, so I'll let the VM crowd handle it.

Well, it is not really a VM thing, except to say that VM is still using 
mail-mode for sending mail, which is semi-obsolete.  mail-mode puts FCC 
headers in the message composition buffer and leaves them there until 
the message gets sent.

Perhaps moving to message-mode will cure the problem?

Cheers,
Uday