I hope there is someone  familiar enough with Telemon's contributed
MAILNM program to answer my question.

I am using this program as a simple mailer on the HP3000 (928LX, 5.5
Express 7) to mail to our company Exchange server.  I have a job that
monitors a specific group for any files.  When one appears, it reads the
header information and attempts to mail it to the Exchange server.

I notice as the program  loops through the files in the group that is
takes a very long time to load for each file.   Running in a test
Verbose (-v) mode it appears that the time is being spent in the
OpenSocket phase.  Is there something I can do to speed up this
process?  I do not have an understanding of what is happening with this
program and would appreciate any information that someone can provide.

A sample of a single mailing follows:

:MAILNM.PUB.ENG;INFO="-I -V"
SMTP Host:          boylemail
From:               [log in to unmask]
                    [log in to unmask]
Reply-To:
To:                 [log in to unmask]

Cc:
Bcc:
Subject:            Timing test
OpenSocket(25,boylemail,$000000C0,0)                             THIS IS
WHERE THE DELAY OCCURS.
220 boylemail.boyleengineering.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange
Internet Mai
l Service 5.5.2650.10) ready
>>> EHLO boyle.domain.organization
250-boylemail.boyleengineering.com Hello [172.16.10.59]
250-XEXCH50
250-HELP
250-ETRN
250-DSN
250-SIZE 0
250-AUTH LOGIN
250 AUTH=LOGIN
>>> MAIL FROM:<[log in to unmask]         >
250 OK - mail from <[log in to unmask]>
>>> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask] >
250 OK - Recipient <[log in to unmask]>
>>> DATA
354 Send data.  End with CRLF.CRLF
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:51:15
Mailer: MAILNM [Version: A.01.59]
From: [log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Timing test

Enter message.  Type '//' or :EOD to terminate.
? timing test of open socket.
timing test of open socket.
? //
.
250 OK
>>> QUIT
221 closing connection
CloseSocket(9,$00000050)
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