Delayed sending of emails

[Robert Winkler]

Hi, an efficient strategy to reduce email traffic is the delayed sending of emails.

This also would allow the offline writing of emails.

Is there a way to do this in sup?

Best regards, Robert

[Iain Parris]

Hi Robert,

Excerpts from Robert Winkler's message of 2020-08-04 13:22:23 -0700:

> Hi, an efficient strategy to reduce email traffic is the delayed sending of
> emails.
> This also would allow the offline writing of emails.
> Is there a way to do this in sup?

Sup passes each email message to an external program to send
(config.yaml, option "sendmail").

For example, I personally use msmtp.

To queue/delay messages, the solution would be to call an external
program with this functionality built in.

For example, I haven't used this personally, but perhaps something like
msmtp-queue-scheduler may be of interest?
<https://github.com/parisni/msmtp-queue-scheduler>

(The README references Mutt, however, this should work with any MUA,
i.e., should work with Sup.)

Side note: I have received your email from 24 July re: keybindings,
however, haven't yet looked in the detail required. I'll try to look
within approximately the next week if I can, unless someone else on the
mailing list beats me to it. :-)

Kind regards,
Iain

[Robert Winkler]

Thanks, Iain, you got an answer for everything!

The msmtp-queue seems to be the perfect solution. I will try this out and report back.

Best, Robert

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[Robert Winkler]

 Hi, I solved the problem in a different way:  I only call offlineimap when starting sup and answer emails => I will not see replies until I start sup again ;-).

[Robert Winkler]

Hi, installed msmtpq-enqueue and msmtpq-flush from

https://gitlab.com/lxkl/msmtpq

and set in the

.sup/config.yaml

   :sendmail: "/usr/local/bin/msmtpq-enqueue -oem -ti"

Twice a day, the emails are sent by a cron job, once a day they are collected:

11 11 * * * /usr/bin/offlineimap >/dev/null 2>&1

16 16 * * * /usr/local/bin/msmtpq-flush >/dev/null 2>&1

10 10 * * * /usr/local/bin/msmtpq-flush >/dev/null 2>&1

This way, my emailing now is discontinuous; 'chat'-like conversations are avoided.

 Best regards, Robert