Comments on: Living in Emacs http://blog.schiessle.org/2009/04/13/living-in-emacs/ Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Francois http://blog.schiessle.org/2009/04/13/living-in-emacs/comment-page-1/#comment-3059 Francois Sat, 23 May 2009 17:19:00 +0000 http://www.schiessle.org/blog/?p=210#comment-3059 Having a smtp server running locally has two major advantages: (1) Emacs will not freeze while the message are sent, wich may take some time with a bad line and a big mail sent to several people (2) you can work with the connection off, for instance when travelling, and let the smtp server take care of the queueing. Having a smtp server running locally has two major advantages:

(1) Emacs will not freeze while the message are sent, wich may take some time with a bad line and a big mail sent to several people

(2) you can work with the connection off, for instance when travelling, and let the smtp server take care of the queueing.

]]> By: Aaron http://blog.schiessle.org/2009/04/13/living-in-emacs/comment-page-1/#comment-2425 Aaron Mon, 04 May 2009 03:51:17 +0000 http://www.schiessle.org/blog/?p=210#comment-2425 I currently use smtpmail, but I've actually thought about switching back to a local postfix. Mostly because of the very slight delay it takes to get a tls connection to the send the mail. I currently use smtpmail, but I’ve actually thought about switching back to a local postfix. Mostly because of the very slight delay it takes to get a tls connection to the send the mail.

]]> By: Mike http://blog.schiessle.org/2009/04/13/living-in-emacs/comment-page-1/#comment-2408 Mike Sun, 03 May 2009 17:44:15 +0000 http://www.schiessle.org/blog/?p=210#comment-2408 I made this switch from a local postfix to smtpmail many years ago, in my case using VM. At the time, my place of work (a relatively large organization) was having some trouble with their SMTP server. Everyone was complaining, but I hadn't even noticed, because my local postfix was queuing the outgoing mail in the background and retrying sending it until it succeeded. Switching to smtpmail made me painfully aware of all the problems. Anyway, it was still the right thing to do, since I was and am using a laptop which is not guaranteed to have a network connection, so it was never guaranteed that postfix got the mail delivered before the machine was disconnected. With smtpmail you knew immediately if there was a problem. Eventually the SMTP service was fixed and I've been a happy VM and smtpmail user. I made this switch from a local postfix to smtpmail many years ago, in my case using VM. At the time, my place of work (a relatively large organization) was having some trouble with their SMTP server. Everyone was complaining, but I hadn’t even noticed, because my local postfix was queuing the outgoing mail in the background and retrying sending it until it succeeded. Switching to smtpmail made me painfully aware of all the problems. Anyway, it was still the right thing to do, since I was and am using a laptop which is not guaranteed to have a network connection, so it was never guaranteed that postfix got the mail delivered before the machine was disconnected. With smtpmail you knew immediately if there was a problem. Eventually the SMTP service was fixed and I’ve been a happy VM and smtpmail user.

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