MQTT_EVENT_PUBLISHED event not firing about esp-mqtt

Hi,

Have you tied sending with QoS 1 or 2, because QoS 0 is "fire and forget" and the MQTT protocol will not confirm message reception.

Kind regards,
Oscar

[mh00h]

Perhaps related to this is another problem I'm experiencing:

//ran sequentially:
xEventGroupSetBits(controller, MQTT_PUBLISHED_BIT);
ESP_LOGI(TAG, "controller eventGroup bits: %x", xEventGroupGetBits( controller )); //to confirm bit got set
vTaskDelay(40); //this required to make race condition succeed
msg_id = esp_mqtt_client_publish(client, "/root", payload, 0, 0, 0);

race condition output options:
    E (2560) MQTT_CLIENT: Client has not connected
OR
    //mosquitto receives the message