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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sending mail is very slow
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:32:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gacuu6$epq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y71yu6o2.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet>

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





  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-11 13:57 sending mail is very slow tyler
2008-09-12  5:32 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2008-09-12 12:51   ` tyler
     [not found] <mailman.19015.1221141434.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-12  3:08 ` Tim X
2008-09-12  3:59   ` ken

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