24 Aug
2012
24 Aug
'12
2:35 p.m.
Hi all,
Having set up my mail server (Dovecot/Postfix), users are experiencing long delays (a couple of minutes) when sending mail from mail client such as Thunderbird - this increases with attachments. Having had a
While in the first place sending e-mail has to do with SMTP and not IMAP, most mail client programs are configured to save a copy of an e-mail using FCC (file carbon copy) by putting this copy via IMAP into some "Sent" folder. And here you are: this may explain the long delays, esp. if on some asymmetric connection like DSL with low upstream bandwith.
Just my 2c
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