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bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:42:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> IMO, this should at least say in the echo area that it's retrying,
> probably with the number of retries.
Yup. And perhaps there should be a `(sleep-for 1)' in there...
> Bonus points for doing that from a separate thread or a timer.
> smtpmail locks up Emacs too much already, when the network is busy.
Yeah, it'd be very, very nice if the entire thing was asynchronous. I
vaguely remember somebody talking about trying to make the entire thing
run from a separate thread (in Emacs versions with support for that)?
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