Re: [Evolution] delay when sending mail

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

well, you are welcome to dig into the problem and send a patch if you
feel that strongly about it.

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 18:35 -0400, Igor A. Nesterov wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:24 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> > It queues a send operation on a thread, but if it's busy (has other
> > things it's doing), then there will be a delay - how long is dependant
> > upon what has been previously queued in the thread.
>
> If the thread you mentioned is for sending only, there is usually
> nothing previously queued. You type a message, it takes time. Then you
> click Send. Unless you are offline, at this moment Outbox is normally
> empty. Still I've never seen a message staying there less than 10
> second. Usually more. I personally cannot explain it by thread
> scheduling delays.
>
> Actually, the point of discussion is not even an actual time consumed by
> sending a message. It might be fast, I do not know that. What we are
> talking about is a sending time perceived by user. It's a time between
> clicking Send in compose window and the Outbox(1) line going from bold
> to normal. In Evolution this time is abnormally long. People on network
> expect messages to be sent immediately. If they see it staying
> undelivered for half of minute, they start wandering what's going on?
>
> Igor  
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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