Re: [msmtp-users] New option to buffer mail before sending?

[Martin Lambers <marlam@...23...>]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:39:11 +0100, Martin Lambers wrote:
> in response to Debian bug 645286 (http://bugs.debian.org/645286), I
> added a new 'buffer_mail' option that makes msmtp buffer the complete
> mail in a temporary file before sending it. This can avoid network
> timeout problems when mailing the output of long-running processes.
> 
> However, this should only go into 1.4.26 (to be released soon) if it
> is really going to be used and it is tested.
> 
> Would this feature be useful to anyone here? Can someone test it? Are
> there maybe reasons not to include this?

Since there was no reaction to the proposed patch in almost 4
weeks (neither here nor on at http://bugs.debian.org/645286), I
conclude that this issue is not important. To avoid adding useless
bloat that nobody uses anyway, I dropped the patch and released 1.4.26
without it.

Martin