Subject: Pine slow to send email via SMTP

From: Simon White <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:47:42 +0200 (Paris, Madrid (heure d'été))

Hello,

Apologies in advance if this is directed to the wrong list. However
consulting the archives I see that bugs and workarounds are part of the
list.

I have a Postfix server on the same subnet as me, if I "telnet" to it on
port 25 and type SMTP commands manually it responds very quickly and mail
goes out immediately. If I use (the dreaded) Outlook Express to send, the
mail goes out immediately.

However, there is considerable delay when sending via PINE. It takes about
20 seconds from hitting CTRL-x to any connection showing up in the Postfix
logs (both machines are synchronised by ntp) and then this is example log
output:-

(CTRL-x hit at around 11:34:52)

Jun 18 11:35:12 postie postfix/smtpd[3992]: connect from
pcsimon.mediadev.com[192.168.1.43]
Jun 18 11:35:12 postie postfix/smtpd[3992]: >
pcsimon.mediadev.com[192.168.1.43]: 220 postie.mediadev.com ESMTP Postfix
Jun 18 11:35:12 postie postfix/smtpd[3992]: watchdog_pat: 0x8080e90
Jun 18 11:35:29 postie postfix/smtpd[3992]: <
pcsimon.mediadev.com[192.168.1.43]: EHLO SIMON
[lots of verbose debug lines snipped]
Jun 18 11:35:29 postie postfix/smtp[3982]: 272172BFE8:
to=<[email-masked]>,
relay=mail.example.com[10.10.10.10], delay=0, status=sent
(250 Ok: queued as 81FCD10F94B)

It takes 17 seconds between the ESMTP greeting and the EHLO from Pine.
Once the EHLO has been sent from pine, less than a second is required
for the message to have been delivered to its final destination SMTP
server.

Is there any setting that could be causing this? What am I doing wrong?

-- 
Simon White
Web Manager

MediaDev
5 bis, rue du Louvre
75001 Paris
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 15 92 00
Fax : +33 (0)1 40 15 92 62
Web : http://www.mediadev.com
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From: Simon White <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:37:02 +0200 (Paris, Madrid (heure d'été))

> for the message to have been delivered to its final destination SMTP

Sorry for replying to my own post :-

Pine Version: Pine 4.56 for Win32
OS: Windows98

Regards,

-- 
Simon White
Web Manager

MediaDev
5 bis, rue du Louvre
75001 Paris