Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Lindsay, > 1. define an smtp host > 2. enable background sending I have defined an smtp host (localhost) and enabled background sending, but the problem is the same The solution is in the sendmail-config parameter in the .pinerc file (as said on this mailing list). Thanx. Sylvain.

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Colin, > sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi > This made my pine lightning fast without the possible problems of using > the background sending option. It runs! But I haven't any problem with the background sending option : what are they? Thanx. Sylvain. Sylvain Briole

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Debian user mail
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > # default delivery mode > > O DeliveryMode=background > > > > becomes > > > > # default delivery mode > > O DeliveryMode=deferred > > Hmm, this one might be the answer for me. > > The thing about reverse dns lookups certainly rings a bell here, be

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could > > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would > > accept the mail right away and pine would contin

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Debian user mail wrote: > Ah, the wonders of sendmail. > > > In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: > > # default delivery mode > O DeliveryMode=background > > becomes > > # default delivery mode > O DeliveryMode=deferred Hmm, this one might be the answer for me. The thing

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
>I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. >But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 >minutes to send a message). Could it be that the connection with the mail server is slow? If you are on a dial-up and you are using POP3, depending on the spee

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > >I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. > >But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 > >minutes to send a message). > > Could it be that the connection with the mail server is slow? If >

Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 minutes to send a message). I thank you in advance for your answer(s), Sylvain. Sylvain Briole | SysOp d'Eclice B.B.S. EMail InterNe

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > > > >I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. > > >But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 > > >minutes to send a message). > > > > Could it be

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wade: > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would > accept the mail right away and pine would continue. Makes me think that it > makes an initial delivery attempt at the time. I know th

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
1. define an smtp host 2. enable background sending This can be done in the Set Config. I think that will fix it. Lindsay On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Sylvain Briole wrote: > Hello all, > > I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. > But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > I did this and it works fine. I didn't want to change to a smarthost > because smail is set up for my needs. Thanks. > > On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > > > sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi > > > > This made my pine lightning fa

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Debian user mail
Ah, the wonders of sendmail. In the out-of-the-box configuration of sendmail, it passes mail along in "background" mode. One might think that this means it does everything in the background. Not so, for a few small details. Sendmail in background mode checks the validity of the destination add

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would > accept the mail right away and pine would continue. Makes m

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Wade
Colin, I did this and it works fine. I didn't want to change to a smarthost because smail is set up for my needs. Thanks. On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > It seems that when pine did the last major upstream release, the config > file changed (at least in my case, but I could have ch