Re: Sending messages is slow

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>]

On 2001.07.05 16:01:45 +0200 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> On 2001.07.05 14:38:06 +0100 Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I use balsa 1.1.4.
> > When I send message with an attachment (~7 MB) (SMTP), the balse
> freezes
> > for about 40 seconds,eats all CPU), afterwards I get dialog box with
> 
> that's the time it takes to convert a 7M (barf!) attachment into MIME 
> base64 or something.
> solution: don't send 7M attachments.

I have to send them.
With PINE it takes with the same file 10 (sic!) seconds (including sending)
but with balsa it takes more than 50 seconds.
And I've checked: using pine the mail is encoded using base64.
So something wrong goes here...
I often send files 10-20MB and it is big pain for me :((
Also, when using microsoft exchange (internet mail in WinNT) it takes much
quicker , so it's not that pine is fast, but rather that balsa is slow.

Regards,

Olaf