[plug] Delay in sending mail

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Leon Blackwell wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:38:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Recently (in the last few seeks or so), sending email messages is delayed,
> > so that sending an email messages, incurs a 75 second delay.
> 
> By delayed, I assume you mean that it took 75 seconds before pine
> finished sending the mail?  If it was simply taking 75 seconds to
> tranfer the mail to its destination, this is perfectly acceptable.
> 
> 

No - the system just sits there and looks at me, for 75 seconds,
displaying "Sending mail 0%". The sending of the mail itself, takes little
time, way less than the wait for it to commence the sending.

If the sending takes more than a couple of seconds, then a numerical
percentage of the amount sent, is displayed.

The test messages had a fixed size of 535 bytes. Even if it was sending
the messages, for the 75 seconds (which it was not), 75 seconds, to send
535 bytes, surely, is too slow. That would mean taking over 23 minutes, to
send a 10kB message. Way too unacceptable.

The 75 second delay, before sending, is consistent at that period of time.

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Bret Busby
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