Re: sending mail is very slow

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

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> tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> 
> This sounds like an issue with your mail server rather than anything to
> do with emacs or VM. I'm assuming you have things configured to use the
> University or ISP mail server directly. 
> 
> ...

Try sending mail with thunderbird and see if you get the same delay.
Tbird's easy to set up.  Even downloading and installing it takes no
more than a couple minutes.  (I was amazed.)  Of course if you get the
same scenario with tbird, then it's likely the mail server.  Otherwise
you're looking at an issue with emacs.

hth,
ken
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