[Zope3-dev] [WAS: Installing Zope3 and Zwiki] MailHost

Stephan Richter stephan.richter@tufts.edu
Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:48:09 -0400


On Friday 25 April 2003 17:10, Tres Seaver wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 17:02, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 16:55, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> > > Stephan Richter writes:
> > >  > Absolutely. Go to http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 and try to change a
> > >  > page. Then look on your watch and see how much time haas gone by.
> > >
> > > It's not unusual for reasonable browsers to just give up and toss the
> > > connection; at that point, lots of mail has been sent and the change
> > > ends up getting aborted anyway.  This is way too common.  ;-(
> >
> > A good reason for the mail tool to be both asynchronous /and/
> > transactional.
>
> Note that Jens Vagelpohl has such a tool for Zope2:
>
>   http://www.dataflake.org/software/maildrophost

I will look at it and maybe just port the necessary part...might take some 
weeks, since it is finals time.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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