On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, 09:41, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > First of all when I send the message mutt sits there for over a minute
> > before coming back with a 'mail sent' message. Why is this? Is there an
> > asynchronous mode for this?
> Actually, I've seen something similar. If I write a very quick reply,
> the "Mail sent" message comes up immediately. If I write a long one,
> or stop and do something else instead and so on, there's a substantial
> delay before I get that. I had assumed that this was just due to the
> "doing something else" and that the process was swapped out or something.
> Could this be the solution?
I'm using Linux too, and I suspect that the MTA is just waiting for the
proper MX records from the DNS server?
Ray
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