Subject: Pine takes a LONG time to send a message

From: "Joe Emenaker" <[email-masked]>
Date: 18 May 1997 18:06:57 GMT

I'm using Debian Linux with smail as my MTA. Lately, Pine has been taking
longer and longer to send messages. When I go to send, it merely says
"Sending | 100%" at the bottom and it just stays there for about 3-4
minutes. It seems to be taking longer each time, too. I've checked my
"sent-mail" folder and that's only 100K, so it's not spending that time
trying to append the message to the end of some huge file. In fact, there
doesn't seem to any out-of-the-ordinary disk activity at all. I've also got
"enable-background-sending" turned on in the options.

So what gives?

- Joe

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From: [email-masked] (Donovan Baarda)
Date: 20 May 1997 03:27:45 GMT

On 19 May 1997 15:17:00 +0200, Ciro Cattuto <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Joe Emenaker ([email-masked]) wrote:
>
> > minutes.
>I'm using Debian 1.2 with smail, and I experience the *same* problem!
>I also noticed that it only happens when I'm logged via a serial line
>TCP/IP connection (SLIP/PPP) ...
>
I had the same problem. I fixed it by specifying my own host as my SMTP
server in the configuration. I'm not sure exactly _why_ this fixed it, but
I think it has something to do with pine doing the sendmail thing
itself rather than handing the job off. 

ABO

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From: wiu09524@rrzc4 (Ulrich Windl)
Date: 21 May 1997 10:31:04 GMT

I saw this with 3.94 and HP-UX 10.10. In fact sendmail had died in the
background (due to timeout?), but Pine just hung. A series of kills
was needed to recover. The problem only occured when a message
exceeded some trivial length threshold (maybe 4kB). With 3.96 things
work as earlier.

Ulrich

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From: Kent Sandvik <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:18:26 -0700

> TCP/IP connection (SLIP/PPP) ...

I was always wondering about this, and when I moved inside the
company to another location, suddenly sending mail is quick
again. Somehow I suspect something related to DNS lookups and
busy DNS servers, but that's just a guess, especially as when I
had slow mail I used BSD mail, and sending mail this way was
quick. The reason I suspect pine is using sendmail in an
intriguing way was that if I had a mailing list, sending emails
to such a list was extraordinary long effort...

--Kent

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From: [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:32:30 GMT

Ciro Cattuto ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Joe Emenaker ([email-masked]) wrote:

:  > I'm using Debian Linux with smail as my MTA. Lately, Pine has been taking
:  > longer and longer to send messages. When I go to send, it merely says
:  > "Sending | 100%" at the bottom and it just stays there for about 3-4
:  > minutes.

: I'm using Debian 1.2 with smail, and I experience the *same* problem!
: I also noticed that it only happens when I'm logged via a serial line
: TCP/IP connection (SLIP/PPP) ...

: ciao,
:       Ciro
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