[Cvs-syncmail] Coping with a slow SMTP server

[A.M. K. <am...@am...>]

I've set up syncmail for a CVS server, and have found that it increases 
the time required for a commit to 10-15
seconds because the SMTP server being used is slow to respond.  (*Why* 
is the SMTP server slow? 
Good question, and one I'll look into, but the server is running 
Sendmail so I don't expect fixing the problem to be easy.)

A work-around would be fine for now.  blast_mail() in syncmail already 
does a fork(), but the CVS server still waits
for the message to be sent; is there some way to make CVS return 
immediately while the message is sent in the background?
Any other suggestions for making the commit run faster?

--amk