Re: Devin's effort

(sorry, sent from wrong address -- see next note)

--On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 06:37:12 -0400 Tanstaafl
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> a) The outgoing local SMTP queue for accounts -> When I send
>> an email,  Mulberry puts it into its own outgoing queue, in
>> case you are offline, or  there are intermittent connection
>> issues.  While I work from home with a  generally solid
>> internet connection, there are times the connection has  been
>> severed (literally by some ass cutting the fiber optics of my
>> ISP),  and having Mulberry have its own outgoing SMTP queue
>> has been invaluable.
> 
> So... Mulberry has its own mini-smtp server?? That is really
> interesting too.

No, just an outbound queue (or, in Mulberry's case, potentially
multiple ones of them, potentially linked to identities and/or
accounts).  I've never looked at how it is implemented, but an
SMTP server is certainly not a requirement, only outbound queues
and a rather lightweight SMTP (or Mail Submissing) client and
"hold in queue" mechanism.   Some version of this is, fwiw, just
about required to support disconnected mode, especially if, in
addition to supporting different accounts for incoming messages
one also supports different submission servers for outgoing ones.

     john