Steve Capistrant
scapistrant at symphonyinfo.com
Thu Mar 10 12:21:42 CST 2005
On a related note, has anyone tried www.YouSendIt.com? Sorry if it's been discussed previously. Its a free website service that allows anyone to send large files, avoiding the complications of email attachments, zipping, and ftp software. We have struggled for years trying to talk clients through how to send their big MDBs to us (for fixing, enhancing, uncorrupting, etc). As developers, we have the know-how to zip a file and load it to an ftp site, but most clients do not, and that 30 minutes you spend with them is a horrible waste. Steve Capistrant scapistrant at symphonyinfo.com Symphony Information Services 7308 Aspen Lane North, Suite 132 Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 763-391-7400 www.symphonyinfo.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:16 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Transfer complete? John, What if you had the receiving mail server reply that it got the e-mail? We had a system long ago where the client had an app that would mail in certain info. When the client e-mail was received at the main office, the e-mail was parsed and an "I got it" type of e-mail was sent back to the client with identifying info in it. When the client received this e-mail, it noted it in it's database. If the client did not receive the reply back in (I think) one hour, then it would resend the e-mail. I know that this was kind of kludgy, but it worked. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:26 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Transfer complete? <snip> The issue is how do you determine that an email (or FTP) transmitted correctly. My current rev of the software has problems where the email is "sent" but the email server at DIS was down for backup (for example) and while the documents are sitting out on the disk, the transfer did not complete correctly (no email sent). We are not doing FTPs yet but I foresee similar issues where the destination is not on the internet for some reason and the transfer does not occur. One of the reasons I want to build a generic system like this is that in the event of a failure, the file record TransferComplete field can be set back to null and it will just be re-transmitted automatically. <snip> I'm really looking for developers who have done this and can discuss their solutions to this issue. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com