[26448] in Athena Bugs
Re: Speed Woes with nmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jun 9 03:36:22 2005
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 03:35:38 -0400 (EDT)
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to: Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@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
Hi,
After further review and investigation, we have implemented a
work-around for this problem in Athena version 9.4 (due out in July).
The workstation you are using will accept the mail message
immediately (allowing nmh to return control to you) and will then
deliver the mail to outgoing.mit.edu in the background.
Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
MIT/IS&T/OIS Server Operations
