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When mail-interactive is nil, Emacs should not wait.

Many years ago I found that waiting for sendmail to finish took so
long it was intolerable.  Maybe that has changed; if so, we could
change the default value of mail-interactive to make Emacs wait
by default.

What experiences do people have?