Re: Gnu Emacs way slower than XEmacs

[David Abrahams]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>>>> "David" == David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>     David> P.S. If it's any consolation, GNU Emacs is *WAY* faster
>>     David> than XEmacs at sending mail to the SMTP server ;-)
>>
>> Right.  That's because traditionally we assumed that sendmail always
>> worked and used an asynchronous process.  Then we started having
>> people use less reliable software (eg, beta versions of TMDA) and
>> losing mail.  So now we wait on the return code.  Perhaps this could
>> be tweaked a bit, or made user-configurable, but we were in a hurry to
>> get it right at the time; losing mail is a no-no.
>
> It's not clear if "sending mail" means sendmail or smtpmail --
> David?

I'm using smtpmail.

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