On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Epperlein, Lutz (agendo) via 4D_Tech < [email protected]> wrote:
> The main problem with 4D Internet Commands is: > It blocks the whole application while waiting for and downloading messages > from the server. I moved downloading emails into a separate 4D database for this reason. It's not as clunky a solution as you might think. The app doesn't require any users to be logged in. I run it as a separate 4D server instance and it simply wakes up periodically, checks some email accounts it monitors, downloads any messages, deals with attachments and writes the data to a set of watched folders which the parent database checks. In our case we receive a lot of image files via email which was a real performance hit for all the reasons you list. Separating it out made even more sense when I began storing all those images on AWS and there was no need to have them in the parent db at all. I'm starting to think it might be worthwhile to add the email sending tasks as well. The parent db drops out-going emails into a watched folder, the email db sends them. -- Kirk Brooks San Francisco, CA ======================= *The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.* *- Edmund Burke* ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
