[plug] Delay in sending mail

[Peter Wright]

Bret,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:50:02PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 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.

Hang on - is it _pine_ that is displaying this "Sending mail 0%" message?
If so, is this after you've just composed a message and hit the "send"
key?

You mentioned earlier that you were using a postfix mailserver - is this on
the same machine? (ie. the machine you're using pine on)

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

Okay.

> 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),
[ ... ]

Okay, don't get carried away here. :)

Have you tried using just /bin/mail to see if the problem is just with pine
or is a general mail problem? For example:

$ echo "Hello there" | mail -s "testing" bret at busby.net

(the '$' is meant to indicate a prompt)

Does that pause for a significant time too, or does that send and put you
straight back at the prompt? If the latter, that would suggest that the
problem is with pine. I'd suggest a misconfiguration were it not for the
fact that is worked fine "before"...

I'd suggest you check that pine's configured to send mail via your local
mailserver first. If it's trying to connect to a remote mailserver over a
busy dialup link, that could explain the difficulties. I don't use pine
myself, so I can't offer any more specific suggestions.

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

Commas. Too many. Make brain hurt. Please stop. :)

> Bret Busby

Pete.
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