On Tue, 21 May 2002, Thomas Loo wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> what is the preferred way of calling an external program from a mailproc.tab if
> I don't want XMail to hold further processing until external completion, sort of an 
>asyncron
> call. Let's say "proggy" in the below example needs several seconds to complete and 
>I have it
> do its own cleanup of the tempfile upon exit, does this have impact on XMail's 
>performance ?
>
> "external" "-1" "0" "proggy" "@@TMPFILE"
>
> ...or is there a better way ?

i would strongly suggest @@TMPFILE if you are not more than sure about the
external program processing time. the other solution is @@FILE + wait, but
it can break.



- Davide


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