I went with that, but added my own class for sending mails in the background (see attached).
instead of: message.send() i use: BackgroundSender.send(message); Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Wessendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 May 2004 18:09 > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: sending emails from a struts app > > > daniel, > > perhaps here are some more ideas for you: > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/email/ > > Cheers, > Matze > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:55 PM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: RE: sending emails from a struts app > > > > > > Right. > > Have been a little dumb - had some cases where this seemed to > > be happening. Got some errors in tomcat logs from users > > clicking stop part way through somthing. On closer > > inspection it is because the action is outputing a pdf itself > > directly. > > > > Now knowing that the action will always complete i'm > > satisfied it will work. > > > > I think i'll run the mail sending commands in a new thread to > > hide any delays from the user. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Daniel. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Hertz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 18 May 2004 17:52 > > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > > Subject: RE: sending emails from a struts app > > > > > > > > > This is what i want to acheive. I cant have the user submitting a > > > request, and then stopping it part way through. > > > > This is what you get. > > > > The browser simply says, "Do this". And you do. There is no > > Mechanism for the user to say, "No! Stop! Don't!". You may > > never get the request if there is a network problem, but that > > isn't what you seem to be worried about. > > > > The browser might give up (stop button, etc) before getting > > the response, and if you were writing the resultant HTML to > > the response yourself, then you'd have to handle the > > exception that could result from connection being gone, but > > in Struts you'd use JSP and so you wouldn't have to. > > > > If youre worried about the user clicking a button, > > "stopping", and since they'd be on the same page, they could > > then press the same button (re-executing the same code) and > > getting you into some bad state, look at using tokens. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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