Mutt over intermittent connection

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:14:34PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have another Mutt question. I am using OfflineIMAP to sync my Gmail
> account to a maildir. I read my email from this maildir. However I still
> use the Gmail smtp servers. Since this is on a laptop, the network
> connection changes a lot; sometimes I am on a wired network, sometimes
> on different wireless networks. I observe that after a connection change
> mutt cannot send emails anymore. It fails with "Cannot find
> smtp.gmail.com". However it works again once I have restarted Mutt.
> 
> Any ideas?

Don't use Mutt to send emails. Instead use something like esmtp to do
the sending, which is able to handle the sending for you.

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Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
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