Re: [VM] smtp issues: progress indicator and gracious failure

[Uday Reddy]

I think smtpmail is a make-shift solution for sending mail from client 
machines.  You might try experimenting with msmtp, which is a native 
program that implements the SMTP protocol for your machine.  Here is the 
link to the msmtp page:

  http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,
Uday



On 5/20/2011 9:30 AM, emacs user wrote:
> hi all,
>
> These aren't bug reports, but more like feature requests, in the hope
> that these features already exist and I dont know how to activate
> them.
>
> I use vm with smtpmail to send mail.  when on a slow wireless
> connection, sending 20Mb attachments can take over 10 minutes.  I am
> wondering if there is a way to get some progress indicator, such as a
> continuously updating "percent uploaded" in the echo area?
>
> also, smtp fails quite often, and then I am left with the outgoing
> mail buffer.  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?
>
> cheers, E