On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could > > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would > > accept the mail right away and pine would continue. Makes me think that it > > makes an initial delivery attempt at the time. I know that when I have > > mail in the retry spool, pine runs normally. > > > > If somebody already knows about this, please post it. I think something about this is mentioned in the buglist. It is one of the bugs submitted against sendmail, some time ago and there was some discussion about this being a problem with sendmail. I did not read it at a very substantial level, but someone more knowledgable than I am in these matters might want to read it a bit better. > It seems that when pine did the last major upstream release, the config > file changed (at least in my case, but I could have changed it awhile > ago). Anyway edit .pinerc and change sendmail-path (originally blank) to > the example that is commented out: > > sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi > > This made my pine lightning fast without the possible problems of using > the background sending option. This did not work for me, nor did the smtp setting, nor the enable-background-sending option. I'm using sendmail and pine and I notice that when I send a message with pine when I am online, there is never a substantial delay. When I am not online, there almost always is. I estimate the delay about as long as a dns lookup timeout. When I don't include a sendmail-path setting in .pinerc, pine says "sending mail: 0%" and ps -waux shows a sendmail process waiting for a child and a sendmail process trying to deliver mail. This is with pine's backgroud-sending option on. When I do include the sendmail-path, I can only see a second instance of sendmail running, while pine is stuck with the message "sending mail: 100%". Probably waiting while this message is being "sent", Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
