[Zope] sending mail slow?

[Loren Stafford]

From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
>
> 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.

You could use Xron to schedule sending the email. You could schedule it for
later or for "now". Either way the email would be sent asyncronously from
the original request. (But check out another email dated today titled "Xron
test").

-- Loren