Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2012, Heinz Diehl wrote: > It's not me who has problems with mutt and mail delivery :-) > But I think you're right, a local mailserver could resolve the > problems. When I'm at home, I'm using mutt and POP3, and when I'm travelling, I access my mailbox via IMAP and Mew (emacs). Home aga

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:14:34PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have another Mutt question. I am using OfflineIMAP to sync my Gmail > account to a maildir. I read my email from this maildir. However I still > use the Gmail smtp servers. Since this is on a laptop, the network > con

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Paul, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 03:04:19PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 18.07.2012, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > Heinz, I think you may find that running your own local mail server -- > > which can, itself, connect to other mail servers when connections are > > up -- may solve your problem. >

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2012, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Heinz, I think you may find that running your own local mail server -- > which can, itself, connect to other mail servers when connections are > up -- may solve your problem. [...] It's not me who has problems with mutt and mail delivery :-) But I think yo

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 18.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > I observe that after a connection change > > mutt cannot send emails anymore. It fails with "Cannot find > > smtp.gmail.com". However it works again once I have restarted Mutt. > > I've never us

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > I observe that after a connection change > mutt cannot send emails anymore. It fails with "Cannot find > smtp.gmail.com". However it works again once I have restarted Mutt. I've never used mutt to connect directly to a mailserver (I run my own local postfix) an

Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone, I have another Mutt question. I am using OfflineIMAP to sync my Gmail account to a maildir. I read my email from this maildir. However I still use the Gmail smtp servers. Since this is on a laptop, the network connection changes a lot; sometimes I am on a wired network, sometimes on d