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    <B>Jonathan George</B> 
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<PRE>Why not use popen() and open a pipe to sendmail, pipe in the information
and then close the pipe?  That way sendmail spawns off a new process,
without requiring the addition of timeout handling etc.

For the record, it's a proven concept that the above method will work -
StarChat (around 1000 concurrent connections at night).

[Note: StarChat doesn't use EsperNet services, this is just an example.]

|<i>     For the record, the proper way to do this would be to open a direct SMTP
</I>|<i>connection to a known mail server and send the mail over that connection,
</I>|<i>using select() to monitor the status of the connection (and timing out in a
</I>|<i>reasonable period of time to prevent people from using up all file
</I>|<i>descriptors by sending lots of SENDPASS requests).  Note that a proper
</I>|<i>implementation of this functionality requires quite a bit of work, including
</I>|<i>redoing the main program loop and I/O code to be able to monitor multiple
</I>|<i>sockets at once; this is why I never got around to adding this functionality.
</I>|<i>If it were as simple as writing a function like the original poster did, I
</I>|<i>would have done it long ago.
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	34	<PRE>Why not use popen() and open a pipe to sendmail, pipe in the information
	35	and then close the pipe? That way sendmail spawns off a new process,
	36	without requiring the addition of timeout handling etc.
	37
	38	For the record, it's a proven concept that the above method will work -
	39	StarChat (around 1000 concurrent connections at night).
	40
	41	[Note: StarChat doesn't use EsperNet services, this is just an example.]
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	43	\|<i> For the record, the proper way to do this would be to open a direct SMTP
	44	</I>\|<i>connection to a known mail server and send the mail over that connection,
	45	</I>\|<i>using select() to monitor the status of the connection (and timing out in a
	46	</I>\|<i>reasonable period of time to prevent people from using up all file
	47	</I>\|<i>descriptors by sending lots of SENDPASS requests). Note that a proper
	48	</I>\|<i>implementation of this functionality requires quite a bit of work, including
	49	</I>\|<i>redoing the main program loop and I/O code to be able to monitor multiple
	50	</I>\|<i>sockets at once; this is why I never got around to adding this functionality.
	51	</I>\|<i>If it were as simple as writing a function like the original poster did, I
	52	</I>\|<i>would have done it long ago.
	53	</I>
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	55	Jonathan George (<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">net at lite.net</A>)
	56	Terra World, Inc. (<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">support at terraworld.net</A>)
	57	Programmer (<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">outlaw at terraworld.net</A>)
	58	Technician (<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">root at lite.net</A>)
	59
	60	"Never execute code written on a Friday or
	61	a Monday."
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