[Zope] mailhosts and mail server speed

[Shane Hathaway]

Chris Withers 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.  Sendmail
(and most other mail servers) will queue the mail without holding up the
connection.  I don't know about you, but I get instantaneous mail
processing this way.

Shane