title: Very slow smtp.gmail.com connection (digital ocean)
body: <p>I am trying to figure out why my Gmail PHPMailer sends are soooo slow (more than a minute for a tiny email). I tried the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...I get a message saying that the server is (I added the etc's)</p>
  
  <pre><code>Trying 2607:f8b0:etc:etc::6c..." 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then, 4 minutes later, this output appeared:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Trying 64.233.etc.etc
  Connected to smtp.gmail.com
  Escape character is '^]'.
  220 mx.google.com etc..
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using Digital Ocean and believe that I have everything configured to send mail. I do receive the emails, but not for several minutes.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone shed some light on this situation?  Could this be why PHPMailer is so slow? Thanks!</p>