Jeff, I don't think you fully understood Jason's suggestion. Trac would pass off the email to a *local* mail server and be done with it. Trac would be free to do other processing. Meanwhile, mail servers (and SMTP) are specifically built to handle intermittent connections. So let the local mail server worry about forwarding the mail to your intermittent "real" server.
The local mail server on your Trac box doesn't even have to listen for incoming mail from other machines. It can be set up to only accept mail generated locally, and forward everything it gets to your "real" server. Matt Jeff Rodenburg wrote: > Thanks Jason, I'm running in a nix configuration. My issue deals with > remote connectivity -- or the intermittent lack thereof between > installations. By server being "down" what I'm really pointing to is > unavailability due to network. It's not a problem I can solve from the > mail server perspective. > > thanks, > j > > On 9/8/06, *Jason Winnebeck* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Usually in a *nix environment you can set up a mail server like > exim4 to listen only on localhost, which is pretty much guaranteed > not to fail (at least due to connection problems). > > > > If its mail queue is set up properly it will do resends and such for > you, so even if the server is down at the time it will try again > later, regardless of what Trac is doing, so you get reliable and > instant email "for free" as far as Trac is concerned. > > > > If you are running on Windows I don't know if there is a similar > method to use there… > > > > Jason > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Jeff Rodenburg > *Sent:* Friday, September 08, 2006 1:26 PM > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* [Trac] Dealing with up-and-down mail servers > > > > I've got mail notification configured on my trac server, but we're > experiencing some intermittent connectivity issues with the mail > server. When the mail server goes down, trac entries are of course > saved but hang for the user while it tries to spiral out the > notifications. > > Is there a fix or adaptation I can make that lets the mail > notification timeout after "x" number of seconds? > > cheers, > j --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
