Re: Gnus silently fails to send imap messages when smtp blocked

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Sep 26 2008, Ross Laird wrote:

> I think I have narrowed down a recurring problem I have with mails
> not getting through. It seems that when I send emails from gnus from
> my university office they do not get through. When I send them from
> home they do. I have concluded (and am awaiting confirmation from
> tech support at the university) that smtp is blocked. But gnus gives
> the nice "sending mail" notification anyway, leading me to think
> that the mails have gone through. Thunderbird, I have just
> discovered, halts and gives me a warning message. Is it possible to
> have gnus give a similar warning, so that if I happen to be
> somewhere where sending is blocked I will get a message about that?

I'd have suggested to set `message-interactive' to t, but it's default
is already t:

,----[ <f1> v message-interactive RET ]
| message-interactive is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.
| nil means let mailer mail back a message to report errors.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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