[Backgroundrb-devel] smtp timeout failures

[Geoff Garside]

Have you tried wrapping the delivery in a Timeout block? Something  
along the lines of

	begin
		Timeout::timeout(15) do
			ActionMailer.stuff(weeeee)
		end
	rescue Timeout::Error
		# ActionMailer took too long
	end

It might work, but I have admittely not tested this in the least.

Geoff


On 11 Jun 2007, at 22:55, Justin Garten wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm using backgroundrb to, in part, wrap smtp transactions made  
> through actionmailer.  The problem is that when smtp fails with a  
> timeout error, the worker simply stops at that point.
>
> No exception is returned. I've tried wrapping this call in a  
> begin...rescue block but no exception seems to be making it back to  
> the worker (other methods are correctly passing exceptions to the  
> worker).
>
> I've tested to see if this is an issue of the delay prior to the  
> exception being thrown by creating a method that sleeps prior to  
> throwing an exception but this is passed through and caught without  
> issue.
>
> When I generate smtp timeout errors in console, I receive the  
> exception normally.  I'm trying to figure out what could be  
> different about the combination of backgroundrb and actionmailer.
>
> If anyone has suggestions for what else I can try in testing this  
> or has experience with this, I'd very much appreciate the help.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Justin

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