[Zope] sending mail slow?

[Chris Withers]

Hi,

I've noticed that sending mail from within Zope the <sendmail> tab or
mailhost.send() is very slow (like it adds a few seconds to the time it
takes to get a page back from a post).

Why is that? how can I make it faster?

I'd thought about having the actual mail sending done in a different
thread/process but I don't know how I'd do that or whether it'd be worth
doing. I wonder where the slowness is coming from :S

cheers,

Chris