Hey sailwavedev,

On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:23:22 AM you wrote

s> Hi All,

s> I use Blat to send emails from my sailing scoring software - Sailwave.

s> It works fine (thanks) but I have a problem with speed of
s> connecition to my own SMTP server when testing. It's hosted on a
s> WebFusion virtual server running linux/qmail. Once connected the
s> mail log shows the message is handled quickly - it's the initial
s> connection that takes the time. I'm using this command:-

s> blat.exe "mymsgfile" -u "myuser" -pw "mypass" -to "myemail"
s> -subject "testing SMTP from Sailwave" -f "myemail" -server
s> "myserver" -port "25" -mime -ti 90 -debug -log "mylogfile"

s> If I give an incorrect server (for example) I get an error back
s> immediately. I don't get any info back from blat using debug or
s> superdebug until after the 40 connect time.

s> Using the Thunderbird email client is the same - it takes a long
s> time to connect (40sec) - BUT - using Mailwasher to send an SMTP
s> message it connects and sends *immediately*.

s> Any ideas what Mailwasher could be doing that my command and Thunderbird are
not...?

s> I'll ask Mailwasher support too but I just thought I'd run it pass the
experts here...

I looked at the Mailwasher web site, and it looks like it only looks
at mail comming down from the server. Blat on the other hand only
sends mail TO the server. Completely different process. It is even
likely that it is different software on the server handling things.
For example a typical server process that listens to port 25 is
sendmail, but it has no functionality to process connections to port
110 (which is POP3, or a method for your client to download mail).

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Tim Musson
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