From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sending mail is very slow Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:32:55 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87y71yu6o2.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221197641 15398 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2008 05:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:34:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 07:34:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ke1Ir-0005Fs-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:34:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke1Hq-0007N5-5T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke1HL-0007Mg-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke1HK-0007M9-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60884 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke1HK-0007Lz-Iw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57782 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ke1HK-0008E1-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke1HE-0001K0-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:33:04 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:33:04 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:33:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: <87y71yu6o2.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57465 Archived-At: tyler wrote: > I use VM for email, and it's *very* slow to send emails when I'm > connected to my university network. It's noticeably slow at home > sometimes too, but not so bad. For example, after I compose a message > and send it with C-c C-c I'll see the message in the mini-buffer > indicating that the message has been copied to my sent folder, but the > actual message remains on the screen for 10 seconds or more, and during > this time I cannot interact with Emacs. > > This same behaviour occurs when I send a message using the regular emacs > M-x mail command, so I don't think it's VM specific. Is there something > I can tweak in my configuration to correct this? Any other tips? I don't > notice this problem in Gnus, but opening Gnus itself takes a very long > time when I'm using the University network as well. > > I thought the size of my sent mail file might be the problem, but > cutting it down from 2.9M to 210K didn't help at all. > > Emacs 23.0.60.1, built from source on Debian Lenny/Testing What does `C-h v mail-interactive' say? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA