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From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: 19.34/GNUS & Mail
Date: 04 Oct 1996 15:36:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7ybhm8qu3.fsf@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: William Perry's message of Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:03:56 -0700

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>>>>> "WP" == William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

WP>  There is a distinct and noticeable slowdown when sending mail.

Because smtpmail.el talks to the SMTP daemon via a TCP connection while
sendmail.el invokes sendmail directly.

WP> And you can't do delayed 'batching' of mail messages like sendmail
WP> gets you for free.

Well, for those of us running on Windows 95 machines, we usually do not
have sendmail to do this for us.  Thus, we use things like queuemail.el
to (not suprisingly) queue mail, and smtpmail.el to (wonder of wonders)
talk to a SMTP server.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~1996-10-04 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <199610040459.MAA16225@nevyn.realize.com.au>
1996-10-04 14:13 ` Richard Pieri
1996-10-04 15:52   ` Steven L Baur
1996-10-04 17:03     ` William Perry
1996-10-04 17:58       ` Steven L Baur
1996-10-04 19:36       ` Richard Pieri [this message]

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