Subject: Sending takes too long

From: Dominik Loeffler <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 01:23:49 +0100 (MET)

When I send mail from my PC at home, it gets queued in the mailqueue until
I start a dialup, then my queue is emptied (sendmail -q).

With pine (3.95) sending mail via ^X takes up to about 5 minutes, until it
gives me the 'mail sent' message ...

With elm it works all well and all my mail is sent in seconds, but pine
seems to wait for something.

If anbody can help me fix this I will be really happy.

bye
Dominik

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:50:04 GMT

On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Robert de Bath wrote:
> Main -> Setup -> Configuration -> enable-background-sending
> 
> assuming you're not using QDOS++

What is QDOS++???  I just tried to set enable-background-sending in
the Windows 95 version of Pine and it's not in the list of possible
variables.  Does anyone know why this variable isn't in this
version? 

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Robert de Bath <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:55:02 +0000

> What is QDOS++???  I just tried to set enable-background-sending in
Sorry, I was being a little too obscure :-)
QDOS is what MSDOS used to be called before MS bought it, it stood for
'Quick and Dirty Operating System'

MSDOS++ is a possible alias for the more recent versions of dos or Windows95.

QDOS++ is obviously a very Dirty operating system :-)

> variables.  Does anyone know why this variable isn't in this
Because it will only work with OS's that can multi-task, contrary to Gates
propaganda Windoze 95 does _not_ multi task. Eg. My slow old 486 can run
a tape backup, pickup email, pickup news run a BJ10E printer through a
postscript intepreter, as well as what ever I'm actually doing at that
moment all at the same time ... I don't run Windows 95.

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