Bug#652731: ITP: extsmail -- enables the robust sending of e-mail to external commands.

2011-12-20 Thread olivier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: oliv...@biniou.info Package name: extsmail Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Laurence Tratt lau...@tratt.net URL : http://tratt.net/laurie/src/extsmail/ License : BSD, MIT Programming Lang: C Description :

Bug#652731: ITP: extsmail -- enables the robust sending of e-mail to external commands.

2011-12-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach oliv...@biniou.info oliv...@biniou.info [2011.12.20.1143 +0100]: extsmail enables the robust sending of e-mail to external commands. extsmail masquerades as the standard UNIX sendmail program, reading messages, and later piping them to user-defined commands. In a sense, extsmail

Bug#652731: Fwd: Bug#652731: ITP: extsmail -- enables the robust sending of e-mail to external commands.

2011-12-20 Thread Laurence Tratt
What makes it robust? What happens if the external command fails? The command is retried (with a delay) until it succeeds. For example the second scenario on http://tratt.net/laurie/src/extsmail/scenarios.html shows how this can be utilised to achieve fallover between servers. How is failure

Bug#652731: Fwd: Bug#652731: ITP: extsmail -- enables the robust sending of e-mail to external commands.

2011-12-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Laurence Tratt lau...@tratt.net [2011.12.20.1956 +0100]: What makes it robust? What happens if the external command fails? The command is retried (with a delay) until it succeeds. For example the second scenario on http://tratt.net/laurie/src/extsmail/scenarios.html shows how

Bug#652731: Fwd: Bug#652731: ITP: extsmail -- enables the robust sending of e-mail to external commands.

2011-12-20 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:39:52PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Dear Martin, The description of the package should answer my questions concisely. Equally, others might reasonably say that words are just words. One may always inspect the source to truly satisfy oneself. Also, to run