Re: Transient SMTP errors

[JohnJackDoe tele2 de]

Hi all,

I watched the discussion for a while.

My proposal is that the user has an additional 'send to queue' button.  
This would flag (on hold) the message and send it  to the queue only  
without further action. The already available 'send' button would send  
it not flagged (ready for transfer) to queue for immediate transfer.

The retry timeout (client has given up and noticed the user) should be  
user adjustable and the retry timer (time interval for retry) too.

What are your opinions?
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Best regards

John Jack Doe

On 28 May 2017 12:22:19, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Peter and Jack:
>
> Am 27.05.17 23:48 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > Yes, we need to discuss the UI. As for creating new outgoing  
> > messages: when any message is sent, the whole queue in Outbox is  
> > sent, except for any messages with the FLAGGED flag (or DELETED, of  
> > course). Essentially, any message in Outbox that is not FLAGGED is  
> > viewed as queued for sending, regardless of its history.
>
> What about the following:
>
> (1) Add a new config option "Try to send queued messages every ...  
> minutes" which can be disabled completely or configured by the user  
> for a timeout (default: 15 minutes).
>
> The next items apply only if the option is enabled.  Ready-to-send  
> messages means messages in the outbox which are neither flagged nor  
> deleted.
>
> (2) When balsa is started, count the ready-to-send messages.  Launch  
> the timer if the count is > 0.
>
> (3) User selects to queue a newly composed message:  Stop the timer  
> if it is running, and add the new message to outbox.  Start the timer  
> again unless a send operation is running in a separate thread.
>
> (4) User selects to send a newly composed message:  Stop the timer if  
> it is running, and add the new message to outbox.  If a send  
> operation is running in a separate thread, set a "retrigger send"  
> flag.  Otherwise, launch the send operation for all ready-to-send  
> messages.
>
> (5) Send operation (either from sending a new message, or from  
> manually sending the queue):  Stop the timer if it is running.   
> Launch the network check.  On success start the thread to send all  
> ready-to-send messages.  If no transient error occurred and the  
> "retrigger send" flag is set, clear it and again send all  
> ready-to-send messages, until either an error occurred or the flag is  
> not set.  In all cases, re-start the timer if at least one  
> ready-to-send message is left in outbox.
>
> (6) Manually un-flagging a message in the outbox does not affect the  
> timer.  I.e. the user in this case shall manually trigger the send  
> operation (or items 2, 3 or 4 above will trigger the send operation).
>
> What do you think, would this reasonably catch all use cases?