> 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. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q='$q',\$p='$p';eval\$q.\$\^I#\n"# [EMAIL PROTECTED] $q='print"$p$^I\n',$p='#!/usr/bin/perl -i';eval$q.$^I# Joey Hess "He. He. He." - - Herman Toothrot