sending mail is slow

[http://www.dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

It seems that, although the message gets accepted instantly, the mail
doesn't actually get sent until much later (minutes later).

I run qmail at home and, although you may not have this problem, I have
had this kind of problem in the past at home.  The problem was due to the
"trigger" named pipe not getting created correctly.  I guess qmail-send
listens to that named pipe and, if it fails to do that, qmail-send will
only send a message when it wakes up (every few minutes).

Anyway, again, this may not be your problem, but you might wanna
double-check.