RE: [WebDNA] How WebDNA email sending works...
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2012
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 108581
interpreted = N
texte = Chris, Thank you so much for this explanation. Lori >I thought it could be interesting for all of you to know exactly how the mail system works with WebDNA: >WebDNA writes the mail to be sent in /EMailFolder. There is only 1 thread sending email unless someone has >sandboxing turned on (version 6.2). The email thread sleeps for X ticks, then wakes up, runs through the >EMailFolder, processes one single acceptable mail by forwarding it to a SMTP server, adds a log entry in >/EMailLog and moves the mail to /EMailCompleted, then sleeps for X ticks, and repeats. >Acceptable means that the filename ends in the word "done". >Processing the mail means the mail is sent through port 25 to either a localhost SMTP server or an external >one. >It will only process one email file for each sleep/wake cycle. So if the main thread starts to write a new >email file while the email thread is in the middle of a waking cycle, it does not matter. It will be ignored until >the main thread renames it to end in "done", at which point the email thread will consider it during the next >wake cycle. >chris
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Chris, Thank you so much for this explanation. Lori >I thought it could be interesting for all of you to know exactly how the mail system works with WebDNA: >WebDNA writes the mail to be sent in /EMailFolder. There is only 1 thread sending email unless someone has >sandboxing turned on (version 6.2). The email thread sleeps for X ticks, then wakes up, runs through the >EMailFolder, processes one single acceptable mail by forwarding it to a SMTP server, adds a log entry in >/EMailLog and moves the mail to /EMailCompleted, then sleeps for X ticks, and repeats. >Acceptable means that the filename ends in the word "done". >Processing the mail means the mail is sent through port 25 to either a localhost SMTP server or an external >one. >It will only process one email file for each sleep/wake cycle. So if the main thread starts to write a new >email file while the email thread is in the middle of a waking cycle, it does not matter. It will be ignored until >the main thread renames it to end in "done", at which point the email thread will consider it during the next >wake cycle. >chris
"Lori Palmquist"
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