Re: [Cvs-syncmail] Coping with a slow SMTP server

[Greg W. <gw...@py...>]

On 04 June 2003, A.M. Kuchling said:
> 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.)

If the server in question isn't on the localhost, why not run a decent
MTA on the localhost?  (You know which one I'd suggest.  ;-)

Kludgy idea, if port 25 is already taken: run a decent MTA on some other
port, and get syncmail to connect to that port.

        Greg
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