SNDDST

Something seems to be slowing SMTP on our system down. When I 1st configured
SMPT on our machine, the time lag from when I 1st submitted the SNDDST
command to when I would receive the email was almost nothing. Now there is a
time lag of about 49 seconds from the time the command is submitted to when
I see the job go though QMSF. (is this typical??)
With three QMSF jobs running and submitting a larger number of emails to
send (via 3rd party software) we are seeing the following results:

15    QMSF        QMSF        325282  09/03/02  08:34:48
15    QMSF        QMSF        325281  09/03/02  08:34:49
15    QMSF        QMSF        325280  09/03/02  08:34:50
16    QMSF        QMSF        325281  09/03/02  08:35:55
16    QMSF        QMSF        325282  09/03/02  08:35:55
16    QMSF        QMSF        325280  09/03/02  08:35:56
17    QMSF        QMSF        325282  09/03/02  08:37:01
17    QMSF        QMSF        325281  09/03/02  08:37:01
17    QMSF        QMSF        325280  09/03/02  08:37:02

Where previously we had seen (though not monitored) 11 emails go through in
a very short time.
I've opened a call with IBM but the person I'm working with seems to be
stumped.
Anyone seen this before and know what to look for?
(SMTP has been given a cold start, config has been looked at, etc.)

There are no network issues, this is all within our own firewall through our
W2K outlook server.



TIA,

Dale