bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors

[Brian Sniffen]

Oh!  I did write back a little while ago. Let me try now from a different 
address. It seemed to reduce the problem greatly.  Thank you! At a limit of 20 
requests, it was gone. Can this be a customizable constant?

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Brian Sniffen

> On Sep 16, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>> It's a bit difficult to test, though.  Does the following patch work for
>> you?
> 
> I got no response, but I've tried to "manually" step through it, and the
> patch seems to do its thing.  It's not asynchronous, though, but it
> shouldn't make things worse for the normal case, and rewriting smtpmail
> to be asynchronous is a major task.
> 
> So I applied the patch to Emacs 27.
> 
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