Sockets and Timeouts

[spelman]

Hello all,

I have a question regarding sockets and a possible timeout

The background to this is that I want to send an email from my application.
Using the Sendmail application as a sample,I pulled out the basics of how to
send the mail - and it works great.

However, I'm using a Wifi link which can be a bit flakey, so if this drops connection while
the email is being sent, then the application hangs.

So, my question is, can an SMTP socket used for email have a timeout attached ?
or, would a do events statement somewhere help ?

Kind Regards from a very happy HMG user

[gfilatov]

Hello all,
...
So, my question is, can an SMTP socket used for email have a timeout attached ?
or, would a do events statement somewhere help ?

Hello,

Thanks for your request!

It will be available at the next Extended build (added a new method SetSendTimeout( nMilliSec ) to TSMTP class).

BTW DO EVENTS statement don't help in this case.

[spelman]

That's brilliant - Thankyou very much