Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior?

[Jan D.]

> > > Currently there are large numbers of places where Emacs sometimes
> > > loses mail !
> >
> > But since delivery is made in the foreground, you notice when that
> > happens.  Is it worth it to exchange this to a situation where mail
> > is prehaps very quietly not delivered?
>
> No, the situation I'm complaining about is precisely silent mail loss.
> I think you're mistaken about the current default: it's to deliver in
> the _background_, because Emacs effectively backgrounds
> /usr/lib/sendmail.

Actually, I have mail-interactive set to t, I forgot about that.
What about setting timeouts to a lower value, wouldn't that help?

        Jan D.