[Zope-dev] Re. Scheduler product, anyone?

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Loren Stafford wrote:

> The kinds of scheduled tasks I'm thinking about are
>  - email reminders
>  - garbage collection
>  - updating syndicated content from other sites
> 
> Anybody have other examples with other use patterns?

Performing tasks in the background (eg. sending multiple emails,
paging technical support). Just schedule with a time of 'now'.

A more intelligent queue based email system, that can retry later if your 
SMTP host is down.

Packing your ZODB regularly.

Rebuilding/reindexing Catalog's

Removing old Sessions (from SQLSession or FSSession).

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