Sending mail using nodemailer is slower about nodemailer HOT 3 CLOSED

@mohamedmohsins while Github does still list me as the second biggest contributor, that was over 12 years ago

damocles@elack:~/oss/nodemailer(master)$ git log | grep -A 2 "David Ellis" | head -n 2
Author: David Ellis <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Aug 12 16:55:39 2011 -0400

and none of my contributions exist anymore (and my total commit count doesn't even reach 1% of the commits in this repository)

damocles@elack:~/oss/nodemailer(master)$ git-fame 2>/dev/null | sed -n "/\(Author\|David Ellis\)/p"
| Author                |    loc |   coms |   fils |  distribution   |
| David Ellis           |      0 |      6 |      0 | 0.0/ 0.6/ 0.0   |

so including me in this issue doesn't really make much sense.

However, there are a multitude of reasons why sending email via this library will be slower than from Gmail itself, including things like:

1. Google possibly trusting requests from its own servers more implicitly and bypassing spam filters if sent via the web UI.
2. Mail sent via API may be put into a different queue than the Web UI, perhaps as a way to encourage upgrading your email account to an enterprise one?
3. The web UI may be communicating to a nearby web server to reduce the latency for transferring your 10MB attachment, while the SMTP server may only have a location in California and therefore reduce the possible bandwidth for the data transfer?

Basically, I doubt that this is nodemailer's fault.

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Last commit was 12 years ago, and still you provided a great, educational answer today. Thats what i call dedication to a project. Thank you @dfellis!

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No reason to keep this issue open. Thank you @dfellis for answering it.

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