Re: Best Emacs Mail client.

[Pankaj Jangid]

VanL <van@scratch.space> writes:
> The delay was 42 seconds approximately the last
> two Gnus starts separated a day apart.  The
> mail provider is on the opposite side of the
> planet.

Could you please do this test:

1. Configure SMTP on local machine to relay using exim, postfix etc.
2. Configure Gnus to use local SMTP - (setq message-send-mail-function
'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
3. Shoot a test mail (of course after the new configuration is read by
Gnus)

If sending email is still taking time then there is something wrong in
the Gnus configuration itself; not a mail-server issue.

Similarly, you may test with local IMAP using dovecot.

Regards,
-- 
Pankaj Jangid