Mail sends when not connected

H

Henry Benjamin

I have sent emails when my Powerbook is not connected in error

But the entourage sound file goes and the message ends up in the sent box
rather than the out box


Why is this happening?

Henry
 
B

Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I have sent emails when my Powerbook is not connected in error

But the entourage sound file goes and the message ends up in the sent box
rather than the out box


Why is this happening?

Henry
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Have you got your powerbook set up to use Postfix as the SMTP server?
(usually this means you will have either 'localhost' or 127.0.0.0 in the
server address field for the account settings).

If so, entourage will send the message to the postfix mail server in OS X,
at which point it assumes it has done it's task and files the mail in 'sent
mail'. Postfix, however, will be unable to forward the mail any further as
you are 'not connected', the mail will therefore sit in the postfix mail
queue until a connections becomes available.
 
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