Created attachment 336273 [details]
Shortens delay from 1 sec to 50 milliseconds.

Description of problem:

ssmtp is slow.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ssmtp-2.61-11.8

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

time (sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email ;sendmail -t -i <test_email )

Actual results:

real	0m12.644s
user	0m0.040s
sys	0m0.044s


Expected results:

real	0m1.852s
user	0m0.036s
sys	0m0.024s

Additional info:

This issue is related to a 1 second delay introduced by ssmtp-2.61.6.patch

The attached patch shortens this delay to 50 milliseconds, effectively restoring ssmtp to its expected performance level.