sending email - mutt waiting for long periods of time on "Sending message..."

["Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

When sending messages in mutt (Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01), mutt seems to spend
anywhere between 8 and 30 seconds trying to send the message. All i see is

   "Sending message..."

And then 20 seconds latter it sends and returns me to my INBOX.

This is on an adhoc basis ... maybe 1 out of every 5 messages.

How does one go about debugging why this is happening ?

 -aW

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