[Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module (original) (raw)

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Wed Mar 14 21:14:23 CET 2007

Aahz wrote:

One small wrinkle (and the reason I suggested bringing this to python-dev): I suspect that the problem is not a bug, but simply the occasional failure of sockets. When that happens in a threaded app without timeouts, eventually threads "die" (block forever).

IIRC, my whole process was locking up, not just individual threads.

Tonight I should have time to pull an old copy of the code out of CVS and recreate the test script that I used. Once I have, it should be a matter of feeding a big list of email addresses to the script and waiting a couple of minutes for the script to lock up. The last time I looked, the problem was very easy to observe.

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