So is there anything I can do to speed this up?
Thanks
Darryl
Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
> "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
