[darcs-users] 'darcs send' on windows

[Josef Svenningsson]

On 4/18/05, Peter Strand <peter at zarquon.se> wrote:
> Darcs uses a windows API for sending mail (MAPI), which in turn uses
> your default mail client, so the firewall shouldn't have anything to
> complain about. As long as normal mailing works.
> 
Right.

> > What happens is the following: I issue 'darcs send'. After I have
> > selected my patches windows start shouting about someone trying to
> > access the outlook address book. I click 'yes' to allow this. Then
> > windows complains about someone trying to send an email. I click 'yes'
> > to allow this too. Then darcs claims to have sent the patch
> > successfully. However, no mail is ever sent. Anybody got this working?
> 
> It didn't get stuck in your outgoing mailqueue or something?
> 
[snip]
> 
> You can also try the new --sendmail-command option with an external
> mailer, if nothing else works.
> 
> Do you use outlook or outlook express?
Aha! When I opened outlook I found all my mails in the outbox. But it
seems a little boring that I have to open outlook and click
"send/receive" as I don't use outlook. Are there any way to get
windows to send the mails immediately?

Otherwise I'll look into using and external mailer.

Many thanks,

/Josef