If you are using Witango 5 with the new @EMAILSESSION tag you could write a
taf that cron runs every minute that opens and closes a connection to the
mail server.  If it fails the taf would change the MAILSERVER system
variable to the address of another mail server.

Phil

On 9/8/03 9:21 AM, "Wayne Irvine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> We've become very reliant on WiTango mail actions sending email and I'm
>> getting worried about what would happen if the mail server died
> 
> We had a similar issue with the iSend application we wrote. It is designed
> to create a newsletter from recent additions to a content management system,
> then send them to a list of subscribers. Unfortunately the T2K mail action
> couldn't keep up and it failed after a short number of emails.
> 
> The way we got around it was by using the File Action instead and creating a
> text file with the correct SMTP headers in the Submitted folder of our mail
> server. The mail server just picks them up and sends them. If the mail
> server were down it would pick them up once it was restored and no mail
> would be lost.
> 
> Wayne Irvine
> 
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