"Darryl Strickland" <dstrickland@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
news:44cea252@newsgroups.borland.com...
> How come encoding email attachments are so SLOW. I can send the
> same emails with Outlook or Outlook Express and it's instantaneous.
> Are there is any thing I can do to speed this process up. My users think
> that the application has hung while it's encoding.
As far as I know, Outlook(Express) encodes the message at the time the user
clicks on the "Send" button and then caches the result, so that it can be
tranmitted as-is when the socket is established. Sending pre-formatted data
is very quick, since there is no processing involved to slow the
communication down. Indy, on the other hand, encodes the message data
on-the-fly as it is being sent to the socket. The communication may be a
little slower, but it takes up much less resources.
Gambit
