Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Jon Ribbens
Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 scr

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
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

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Jon Ribbens
Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Josiah Carlson
Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After some discussion, Aahz suggested that I discuss the problem here, > on python-dev. He seemed to think that the problem I saw may have been > an indication of a bug in python. Could anyone take a look at that > thread and say whether it looks li

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Jon Ribbens wrote: > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> After some discussion, Aahz suggested that I discuss the problem here, >> on python-dev. He seemed to think that the problem I saw may have been >> an indication of a bug in python. Could anyone take a lo

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Jon Ribbens
Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After some discussion, Aahz suggested that I discuss the problem here, > on python-dev. He seemed to think that the problem I saw may have been > an indication of a bug in python. Could anyone take a look at that > thread and say whether it looks lik

[Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a message titled "thread safe SMTP module" on python-list. It's oddly split in the archive: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-March/429067.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-March/429172.html A while ago, I wrote an address val