Chris Withers wrote Shane Hathaway wrote: It's the call to mailhost.send() which is slow. I'd love to know why :S
How much influence does the the mail server speed have to this? How can I measure it? ;-)
Set up Sendmail on localhost and see if the problem goes away.
localhost is a windows NT workstation ;-)
Note that if you set up sendmail on a local box, make sure it either handballs stuff off to a smarthost straight away, or you have stuff set up to check for sendmail getting upset and just queuing messages for ever. Normally you'd notice breakages on your mail server - but your web server might be a different matter entirely. Course, it doesn't help in Chris' case, but there's nothing that can't be fixed with either a single CD of redhat or 3 CDs of debian. (or a freebsd CD, if that's what gets you going). Anthony. -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.