[Zope] Zope sendmail tag inconsistent

[Martijn Pieters]

From: "Jason Spisak" <444@hiretechs.com>
> Zopists,
>
> Has anyone else noticed that the endmail tag will sometimes not send a
> mail even though the dtml method sucessfully completes? It's about one
> out of ten at high traffic times, and it happened on Zope.org too when I
> tested it by emailing my password to myself a few times.

This is because:

1/ MailHost doesn't integrate into the transaction mechanism all that well
(patches accepted =))

2/ Email is inherintly an unreliabale form of data transport.

Martijn Pieters
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