AFAIK Hans is doing all this testing on a Windows 98 machine, not his production system, so it's reasonable that he'd experience differences between his production setup and his test setup.
It is a windows nt machine not a w98. More testing: Clean installations, only with a mailhost it is de <dtml-sendmail> in the standard_error_message that does it. Removing it from the standard_error_message makes the authentication popup show immediately. In 2.4.3 the <dtml-sendmail> is not causing a pauze in the authentication popup to show. I took a different machine, also a windows nt 4.0 machine. The same. Then i tested it on our production server (don't tell my boss). That is a windows 2000 machine. There the problem does not show up. Ah, could it be OS dependent? Another windows 2000 machine No problem A windows 95 machine. It took 8 seconds for the authentication popup to show, without the sendmail it popped up immediately. Why would a sendmail in an error_message cause the authentication popup to wait for 25 seconds to show up,? even in the case that there is a misconfiguration of ..things.. I don't see the connection Is it OS related? It seems to be. Suggestions for more tests? Hans de Wit Stichting Farmaceutische Kengetallen Postbus 30460 2500 GL DEN HAAG Tel. 070-3737448 Fax 070-3737445