Long delays with Mail.app replies
A poster on macOSXHints has posted a tip 
to reduce the long delays in producing a reply window that sometimes occur in Mail.
He suggests that it caused by settings in the Keychain and provides a work-around to fix it.
I had this problem earlier in the year. In my case, it wasn’t caused by Keychain settings, but by my .Mac account.
I won’t repeat it all here, but you can read the whole saga in “Apple Mail phones home too” where you will also find the fix.
In short, Mail was trying to connect through port 80 to verify my iChat certificate. My work firewall blocks port 80. Hence the delay.
Interesting that Mail phones home in an unannounced but benign way, don’t you think?
Tags: Apple Mail, bugs, certificate, dotmac, iChat, Keychain, mac, mail.appRelated posts
October 19th, 2006 at 2:24 am
I recently activated the Postfix server on my mac using RapidoSMTP (freeware avail at http://www.app4mac.com/rapidosmtp.html ) and the sending times for mail are disgustingly quick. Even with large attachments. I really recommend activating the Mac’s SMTP server.