> I'm afraid you might be wrong. Did you also remove the > kicker.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY+1) from the > EmailBackgroundHandler.java between 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 ? This means that > the background email no longer runs in a thread with low priority in > 1.7.1. I will have to warn the editors that the next email newsleter > will make the website unavailable ... It looks like the email background handler creates a thread for every mail that has to be sent so even a Thread.sleep won't help, are you sending a lot of mail this way? and why isn't mail queued?
> I thought that 1.7.1 is a bugfixing release. Removing > Thread.MIN_PRIORITY+1 code between 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 doesn't sound like > bugfixing to me. It depends on the outcome of this discussion i think. But I assume there are plenty bugs left in the email module
