Thus said Ken Hornstein on Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:57:45 -0400:
In theory, I'm with you on that; it would be easier. It's just that a)
most MUAs don't even have the option to submit to sendmail and b) the
MTAs I'm used to are very complicated, so they have lots of knobs;
it's hard to drill down in the documentation to find the bits you care
about.
I'm not sure what ``most MUAs'' represents, but perhaps this refers to
Outlook and Thunderbird (and other ``popular'' UI oriented MUAs)? If so,
don't most of these MUAs have an ``outbox'' which is actually just a
local mail queue built into the MUA which retries delivery to the
configured SMTP server?
Does nmh have a queue?
I've long thought that /usr/sbin/sendmail (or /usr/lib/sendmail on some
systems) was widely used by most CLI oriented MUAs (mutt, mailx, etc...)
precisely because they didn't have their own queue. I could be wrong.
:-)
If the goal is to make nmh behave more like popular MUAs, and work
independently of a properly configured MTA then, shouldn't nmh also have
a queue?
Andy
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