Re: slow SMTP send blocks emacs

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:52:56 +0000,
Richard Lewis wrote:
> 
> However, I do occasionally experience the very slow sending messages
> problem. At home I use ADSL with a painfully slow uplink. So when I
> send large messages (e.g. over 100K or so), I experience an
> appreciable delay during which my Emacs is unusable.
> 
> One day, in the distant future, someone will make a decision about how
> Emacs lisp with have threading support added. And then all the
> thousands of package maintainers will gradually start altering their
> code to take advantage of this multi-threading capability.

Emacs doesn't *need* threading support to accomplish this.  Lots of
packages interact with processes “in the background,” (during idle
time) and I don't see why mail sending should have to be any
different.

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