[Zope] mailhosts and mail server speed

[Chris Withers]

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 ;-)

> 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.

Hmm, I think our mailserver, which I was using for this, does a DNS
check on the domain names to make sure they exist. I wonder if this is
what is causing the slowness of the response?

cheers,

Chris