smtpmail: Queued delivery
5 Queued delivery
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If you connect to the internet via a dialup connection, or for some
other reason don’t have permanent internet connection, sending mail will
fail when you are not connected. The SMTP library implements queued
delivery, and the following variable control its behavior.
‘smtpmail-queue-mail’
The variable ‘smtpmail-queue-mail’ controls whether a simple off
line mail sender is active. This variable is a boolean, and
defaults to ‘nil’ (disabled). If this is non-‘nil’, mail is not
sent immediately but rather queued in the directory
‘smtpmail-queue-dir’ and can be later sent manually by invoking
‘smtpmail-send-queued-mail’ (typically when you connect to the
internet).
‘smtpmail-queue-dir’
The variable ‘smtpmail-queue-dir’ specifies the name of the
directory to hold queued messages. It defaults to
‘~/Mail/queued-mail/’.
The function ‘smtpmail-send-queued-mail’ can be used to send any
queued mail when ‘smtpmail-queue-mail’ is enabled. It is typically
invoked interactively with ‘M-x smtpmail-send-queued-mail RET’ when you
are connected to the internet.
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