Re: An Idea for Gnus

[Michael Widerkrantz]

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

> I sometimes like to work at "lightning speed" and don't want to wait
> for 30 seconds (or more) for gnus to send a message to the server and
> copy the sent message into the sent message folder. It "Sure Would Be
> Nice" (TM) if gnus could be made "multitasking"so that message
> transmission is done in the background while control of gnus is returned
> immediately back to the user. 

Do you have to do this in elisp?

The standard way is to have a local MTA on your machine do this for
you, usually sendmail, exim or postfix. 

The usual way to configure them is to use a smarthost for delivery,
perhaps with authentication.

If you think sendmail, exim or postfix are overkill on your
workstation, consider using ssmtp or a similar lightweight mail
deliver client.

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