[Dnfbb-developers] Mail

[Simon C. <sim...@le...>]

Originally I was going to use a 3rd Party open source solution for sending
email from dnfbb websites, however, this solution is only available to
firebird database.  As dnfBB will eventually support multiple RDBMSs I am
now wondering if this is the correct solution.

Personally, I am not keen on mail being sent during an actual post (using an
example of somebody subscribing to new posts in a forum).  I would rather
have the email stored in the database and sent on a scheduled basis, with
the posibility of failure notifications beign returned so as the system
admin can be notified.  This, IMO, will become more apparent when
integration with 3rd party mail lists is complete, and the volume of mail
both sent/received has the potential to become high.

I am just now wondering what options are available, and what thoughts you
have to this.  As I see it, we could go for one of several options, they
are:

A: Scheduled task, calling a specific .aspx page at regular intervalse which
sends/receives emails.
B: Scheduled task, which hooks into the database directly and sends/receives
at regular intervals.
C: Send directly when needed through the presentation layer.

Any thoughts?

Si