[plug] Delay in sending mail

[Christian]

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

Sounds like the good old comma overflow bug in pine... ;-)

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

Is it possible that it is trying to do a DNS lookup?  That's what it
sounds like to me but if you're sending the message to the same place
each time then this shouldn't be the case.  Monitor network connections,
CPU/memory usage and postfix logs while trying to send the message.
When did this problem start? What had you done recently prior to this?

> 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.

Bret, even ignoring the excessive number of commas here, this paragraph
makes no sense at all.  "Even if it were doing something, which it is
not doing, then this would be unacceptable.  If it were, in fact, doing
this thing.  Except it's not.  But if it were this would be unacceptable
-- especially if I extrapolate in a ridiculous and inconsistent way.
Luckily it's not.  Except it's still unacceptable."

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