Re: A send-queue type

[Sergio Villar Senin <svillar igalia com>]

Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> There was a desire to have a type that defines the role of a send queue.
>
> A few design questions for the group
>
> E-mail applications often have to support multiple send accounts. The
> user typically selects per message which send account is going to be
> used. 
>
> o. My opinion is that mobile users don't care about it, and want the
> software to auto detect which send account should be used
>   
I completely agree with you.
> o. Nevertheless, should the send queue register per message being send
> which send account to use?
>
> o. Or should such a send queue play send queue for one specific send
> account (so that you have more than one send queue if you have more than
> one send account) (I favor this one)
>
> o. If option three, should there be a TnySendQueueGroup type too? One
> that can classify between the available TnySendQueues which one to use
> in case the user (or developer) selected "auto detect it for me". In
> this case would the detecting code be implemented in the
> TnySendQueueGroup type (or a TnySendQueueClassifyer if you prefer that
> name).
>   
IMHO, the answers are yes for both. As you said mobile users don't care
about the account their email program is using (in fact desktop users
don't care either), because the important thing here is that the message
must be sent.

I'm not completely sure about the use of multiple queues instead of one.
I don't see a real advantage in the use of one of these alternatives.
Maybe it will allow messages to be sent faster because slow sending
accounts won't interfere with fast ones. Anyway the use of the Observer
pattern seems to fit very well with the queue classifier idea.

Other question here is to decide if a given message could "migrate"
between queues, for example if the connection is suddenly unavailable.
The program could receive an error and suggest the user to send messages
by another (giving them a default choice).

Br.