[pmmail-list] PROGRAM tag question.

[Dave Saville]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:17:01 +0100 (MEZ), L.Willms wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:16:26 +0000 (GMT), Dave Saville wrote:
>
>> The question is - how multithreaded is the code? 
>
>   That is very well done, as far as I can see. 
>
>>                                                What I mean is if a
>> program invoked by the program tag takes a long time is that going to
>> hang mail processing until it completes?
>
>  That occurs quite frequently here, I'm afraid. The checking with 
>blacklisters for spam is the time consuming work. But since I need the 
>result to act upon, there is no way around it. 
>
>  You, on the other hand, can quite well START a separate process for 
>getting the update from the Norman antivirus, there is no compelling 
>reason to make the email program wait for the completion of this 
>transfer. 

Except I was going to delete the mail if it worked. As it is I just
mark it read and set high priority to catch my eye so I know
*something* happened.



-- 
Regards

Dave Saville
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