Re: [Evolution] delay when sending mail

[Derrick MacPherson <dmacpherson mainframe ca>]

> It's been said enough about delays and slowness in Evolution. Here is
> yet another very annoying one. Documentation says that "Evolution
> normally sends mail as soon as you click Send". Well, it's not really
> true. When I click Send, a message goes to local Outbox and stay there
> for a  noticeable time. I have not measured it, but it might be well
> 15-30 seconds. It's long enough to provoke a reaction to click on
> Send/Receive and to try to send it manually. And this is in fact exactly
> what happens - every time when I compose new message I send it manually
> clicking on Send/Receive simply because Evolution is not quick enough.
> 
> It is SMTP sending mechanism. SMTP server is on corporate intranet with
> a good response time. I could understand that the time while a message
> stays in Outbox is actually consumed by the process of establishing SMTP
> connection, but then it's the slowest one I ever seen among other mail
> clients. Therefore, I still believe that Evolution does not try to send
> a message immediately. How is it done internally? Is there a sort of
> timer based poll for messages in Outbox or some other reason for the
> delay?
> 

That almost sounds like the SMTP server is doing an ident lookup on you.