[26413] in Athena Bugs
Re: Speed Woes with nmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Tue Apr 12 12:05:37 2005
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To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:34:19 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:04:05 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
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And here I feel silly for long ago having concluded that a) everyone already
was seeing the same thing, and b) it was something we had to accept along
with whatever upgrade had just happened. However, as far as the theory
that authenticated SMTP is slower, I attempted to ameliorate the problem
for myself by deciding I didn't always need authentication, and wrote an
alias to move my tickets aside before running comp. The exact same delay
was still there.
Mitch
> Not to sound like a "Me too" post, but I noticed this a while ago, using
> both pine and MH, and even in programs that call sendmail directly. ISTR
> zephyr discussions at the time chalked it up to "authenticated SMTP is
> slower" or something, so I didn't think much about it after that.
> Perhaps that's not actually the case, then...
>
> -Jon
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> >
> > [User dropped from cc]
> >
> > I have noticed over the last few weeks a great slow-down when sending
> > mail messages using nmh. Usually, things are pretty fast, but every
> > time that I send an e-mail, there is a lag of about 10 seconds.
> > Everything else seems to work perfectly fine.
> >
> > I am not sure what debug information to supply, but I will try to send
> > anything that you ask for.
> >
> > I've noticed similar behavior using mh-rmail, pine, and sendmail. I
> > also think I started seeing this earlier than this user did. All that
> > said, I have a case open with the network group (781571), but have
> > heard no reply. I'll add a note to that case about this report, but
> > I'm not sure what to tell the user.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jonathon
> >
