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Re: slow SMTP send blocks emacs

At Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:50:04 +0000,
Richard Lewis wrote:
> 
> a good solution is to make use of an external process which may take
> as long as it likes, rather than implement the procedure in elisp,
> which will *necessarily* block emacs until it has finished *because*
> elisp only provides one thread of execution.

For things entirely in elisp, there's always run-with-idle-timer.

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