Prophecy 2006

Voxoe reported the origin of the mysterious 22s delay that I was experiencing with semantic errors in VoiceXML scripts. If I made one, P2006 would delay for 22 s before responding, which is a good long time.

Voxeo discovered the problem: misconfigured email servers. P2006 attempts to send logs via email when they have semantic errors, and if the attempt to mail the log fails -- as it would in my system, since it was not configured for a valid SMTP server -- then VoiceXML would delay.

Solutions: (1) Voxeo put a fix into upcoming builds to avoid delays due to email problems. (2) It's possible to deactivate outbound mailing of log files by modifying the config.xml:

I've configured my config correctly instead of turning it off — after I made Voxeo promise not to keep a "Moshe's Silliest Bloopers" based on my log files.