Olivier,
I have no visibility on the delay on which external smtp servers deliver
mails to my mail server. Once a mail is sent out of my mail client, the
mail can be received immediately through my imap client.
To give a more detailed picture on load, my Qmail does not really a
heavy load. I'd say at 9 times out of 10 there are no mails in the
queue. Everything is stored locally so I have no reason to suspect
internal network delays and all.
My suspicion with the delay being related to dns lookups, is partially
also because I wait a couple of seconds less when I am sending from
within the same service provider. Yet when I (for example go home and)
send from another service provider, the delay is longer (by a couple
more seconds). Do note that I am on all tests on broadband, so we can
assume network delay is negligible.
Can anyone confirm that Qmail/ inetd/ FreeBSD does some form of dns
lookup on it's SMTP?
Do you receive email from outside world on this machine? Do you think
there is the same delay?
How do you notice the delay? After Thunderbird mentionned that the
email was successfully sent, you immdiately try to get new email from
your inbox and it takles time?
How big is your inbox? What mailbox format are you using? Are the disk
local or network mounted? How much loaded is your machine? How many
emails do you receive at time? Do you read with pop or imap? Are
pop/imap launched by inetd or they are daemonized? Do you have any
anti virus/spam facility? Do you implement some fancy MDA like
procmail?
Remember that email is not instant messaging, but store and forward:
it is a slow and batch processing, it is dessign to support delay and
certainly the design should generate some.
If the delay remains 5 seconds when your server process 1 or 10000
messages per hour, then there is nothing to worry about.
Authentication should effect only to sending, it deals with the
communication between Thunderbird and qmail. It has nothing to do with
reading your mailbox and should have nothing to do with the in between
delay.
Bests,
olivier
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