[Catalyst] Sending email safely with Catalyst

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:49 PM, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>  >  > I see there's an Email plugin and wondered if this is enough to send
>  >  >  email from a form safely & securely or whether something more involved
>  >  >  like a port of NMS CGI exists?
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Plugin-Email-0.08/Email.pm
>  >  >  http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
>  >  >
>  >  >  It's terribly easy to get this wrong so wanted some feedback from
>  >  >  people who'd previously implemented something like this live before
>  >  >  inadvertently turning my site into a spam conduit :-)
>  >
>  >
>  >  I've got a related question - does anyone send bulk emails with that
>  >  plugin?  Is the delay reasonable when sending let's say a hundred
>  >  emails or do I need a background mechanism for that?  I have now a
>  >  forking solution - but it is a bit complex (and for mod_perl they
>  >  recommend to do it in a 'cleanup' handler instead of a forked
>  >  process).
>  >
>  >
>
>  I've been dying to play with
>  http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/Email-Send-TheSchwartz-0.01/lib/Email/Send/TheSchwartz.pm
>
>  I like TheSchwartz because it's fairly simple, easy to get going
>  and... has this module ready.  I'm hoping to have a reason to play
>  with it in the next couple of months.

This is interesting - but the documentation unfortunately does not
answer following questions:

- The worker looks like a polling daemon - how often does it poll the
database?  Would it be feasible solution on an SQLite database (which
does not work very well with many concurrent connections).

- How should I run the worker process so that it does not die
unexpectedly?  Should I put it into inittab or perhaps should I run it
in a pair of processes that would fork another one if one of them
dies?


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Zbigniew Lukasiak
http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/