Quote Originally Posted by carlwhat View Post
my guess is a problem with sending of emails.
Spot on. In fact I'd just logged in here to report that I'd identified this as the problem.

I've not fixed it yet (not looked), I thought I'd take a little bit of 'time out' to celebrate.

Yeah, some may say it's a little premature - but having identified the process causing the delay is as good as a solution AFAIK. :-)

Quote Originally Posted by carlwhat View Post
i bet if you placed an order with email notifications turned off the response time would be about a second... again just a guess...
I've not done this particular test/experiment yet, but I was able to confirm/verify this with the order update function, so yeah, basically the same test/proof.

What *eventually* 'clicked' for me was that the problem only occurred (or seemed to only occur) with the order confirmation and the order update functions. For over a week I've been puzzling over what the common denominator was with these two functions, and it just 'hit' me while I was waiting for another update to return, and from then it was easy to 'prove'. :-)

My next question @carlwhat is, Where the heck were you with this suggestion a few days ago? <g>

Seriously though, although an hour or two 'late' I really do appreciate the response/suggestion. I 'knew' that if anyone would come up with a viable explanation it would be another Zenner :-)


Cheers
RodG