[26429] in Athena Bugs
Re: Speed Woes with nmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu May 5 03:59:03 2005
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 03:58:21 -0400 (EDT)
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To: Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@mit.edu>
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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> 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.
Hello,
I'm sorry it's taken us so long to get back to you. We investigated
this problem and determined that it was not specific to nmh. In fact
the problem occurs with any mail client that sends mail via
outgoing.mit.edu. We consulted with the team that maintains MIT's
central mail system (including outgoing) and learned that outgoing has
started scanning all outgoing messages for viruses and executable
attachments in order to reduce the negative impact these can have on
the MIT community. Unfortunately, this extends the time it takes
outgoing to accept a message.
Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
MIT/IS&T/OIS Server Operations
