> If you have configured pine with the address of your ISPs mail server
> (rather than the local one) then the smtp doesn't become involved with
> your local smail. I use pine with smtp and have no smail/sendmail
> installed at all! The timeout on smtp is fairly long (I don't remember
> exactly), so if there is no response from the target, you wait and wait.
> 
> If you already have smail, why use smtp? Just let smail deliver the mail.
..
> Use pine without smtp and let smail deliver the mail.

Thanks, that did it. I set pine to use my own host as the smtp server, and
have no more delays.

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