smtp mail very slow to send

Hi,

I send an smtp email from my web site to a dozen or so people who subscribe to my site. I send each mail individually and each message takes about 6 seconds to send.

Here is the code at the heart of the issue (ASP.Net 3.5 c#)


Email email = new Email(from, to, subject, body);
email.IsHtml = false;
email.Server = server;
Log.WriteLog("Send Started");
email.Send();
Log.WriteLog("Send Ended");

The time between the two log writes is 6 seconds, should it be that slow.
I am using DASP smtp server.

Thanks for reading

 

Hi Bruce,

localhost is the server, should it be different?

 

just a few words i have a test harness that i just ran, this time on smtp.quotationmark.co.uk as the server and run 1 was 11 seconds run 2 6 seconds. Very strange, web config extract below...

<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp from="[email protected]">
<network host="smtp.quotationmark.co.uk" password="blah" userName="[email protected]"/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>

 

Hi Bruce,

I have fixed it, I was not using localhost in my config correctly. Thanks for nudging me in the right direction

Mark

 

Glad you got it worked out.