[rt-devel] (no subject)

[Jesse Vincent]

Bcc: jesse at bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [rt-devel] Long attachments timeout
Reply-To: 
In-Reply-To: <20030728092947.25808.qmail at web13704.mail.yahoo.com>

[Please do not send mail to rt-devel and rt-bugs at the same time, as
people replying will create new ticket after new ticket. If you need to,
mail to rt-bugs and get a ticket id and then use that in the subject of
both messages]


On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:29:47AM -0700, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
 
> After the mail body is passed to Apache, the mail handler takes few minutes 
> to process the long attachment. During this post-processing, HTTP POST 
> operation is not yet finished, and Apache returns error 500 after 300 seconds 
> (the default Timeout value). 

Minutes? That surprises me. What database? That sounds like you have
something badly mistuned.

> I think the mail handler should finalize the HTTP session before starting 
> to process the message body.

You mean that the server should tell the client "Ok, I've recorded the
message, you're done" before it has done so? That's a very, very bad
idea. That could easily result in lost messages.

-- 
http://www.bestpractical.com/rt  -- Trouble Ticketing. Free.