[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

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[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?


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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 

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