On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Telsa Gwynne mentioned:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:29:03AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bakki Kudva wrote:
>
> [eek, can you split your lines with line-breaks? :)]
>
> > Just starting with mutt and I am excited! Have spent nearly 3 days buried
> > in the documentation and have a few questions I hope some one wouldn't
> > mind answering.
> >
> > 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?
Well, to get around this, add this to your muttrc:
set sendmail_wait=5 # Wait 5 seconds for sendmail to return, then put to background
Sendmail could be slow for many reasons - DNS is slow, the mail is big,
or something. This gets around that !
Kate
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