offline mail send

sotha_sil · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 84

A while back I used the tutorial at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-to-mutt.xml
to get mutt procmail and some other programs running on my system. They allow me to online, fetch the mail, go offline, and the read the mail at my leasure. I particularly like that method because nothing needs to be run as root. However, this requires me to be online to compose a reply or compose a new message.

Back when I had first set this up, I used a lot of scripting and some c & false programming to make a rube goldberg system for queueing mail messages and then posting them later. This was all custom software and it was blown away during a recent partition problem. So now I've just got mutt and procmail, etc, working again as before .... and I wonder if there is a better way to get offline queueing of messages to send using existing software.

Can someone recommend something please?

Thank you

agl · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

You need a local MTA which will queue the mail for later sending. Of course, any MTA will do this and will retry if it cannot connect etc - but that's not a good solution.

You might wish to try qmail[1] with serialmail[2]. Once upon a time that worked for me. THere's an ebuild for them both, but I was on a Debian box at the time.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
[2] http://cr.yp.to/serialmail.html