From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3129 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Maier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Sending of messages is very slow Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:08:07 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <877k2pyek4.fsf@cpe0050da66e294-cm0f2069983361.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> Reply-To: Harald Maier NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669329 17723 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:44 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5088e9f9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1067335688 31472 80.136.233.249 (28 Oct 2003 10:08:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:08:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FpQfbgyAUJFIrJUnfyppRyfUw28= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3270 Original-Lines: 28 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3270 Tue Jan 17 17:31:44 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3129 Archived-At: inconnu writes: > Harald Maier writes: > >> Hello all, >> >> I switched to another provider and now I have to use *auth* smtp >> mail. All works fine except the time to send the message takes very >> long. Personally I think this is not a problem of smtpmail.el >> because sometimes it is very fast and the other times it is very >> slow (60s). So I assume it's a problem of the server of my ISP. >> >> Now my question: which option should I use to get rid of this >> performance problem. Would it be best to switch to another MTA? >> Currently I am only using gnus for sending and retrieving the >> messages. It looks that the system comes with 'Postfix'. Would it >> make sense to configure Postfix as MTA or to I have other options >> such as sendmail or whatever? >> > > Why not cut out your ISP completely and send your mail out from your > machine directly? > > That is what I am doing And What do I need to configure for this? Harald