On 2011-01-06 at 10:30:07 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Clemens Zeidler<clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 06.01.2011, 22:01 Uhr, schrieb Sean Healy <jalopeura@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > And that if you have three copies marked 'Error' and one marked > > > 'Pending' in your 'out' folder, Mail will send all 4 of them when you > > > finally track the problem down, instead of just sending the one marked > > > 'Pending'? > > hehe I m restructuring almost the whole mail daemon at the moment and just > > started with the smtp outbound chain, will take this in mind... > > Not sure what your solution would look like, because this is pretty much > completely expected behaviour - it could just ask or prevent resending when > the original mail is still pending. > If a mail could not be sent on first try, it will be retried until it works > - that behaviour surely shouldn't be changed, though. But then it should be kept in 'Pending' state in order to represent the real state of the mail. I personally wouldn't expect a mail with state 'Error' to be pending. cheers, Oliver