Sounds like a good idea. Although it's a bit off-topic, we have some other mail delivery applications that aren't as smart as WiTango and I wondered if there was some kind of network appliance that would support email failover/load balancing and be invisible to the client applications. Does anyone know of such a thing?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 4:33 PM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: MX Failover with WiTango > 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 > > > > Byte Services Pty Ltd > > http://www.byteserve.com.au/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ph 02 9960 6099 Mob 0409 960 609 Fax 02 9960 6088 > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
