Re: How to cancel a tny_transport_account_send?

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:20 +0100, Sergio Villar Senin wrote:
> Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, keep in mind atomicy when cancelling: don't promise the user you
> > cancelled something if you have just sent the last byte to the SMTP
> > server. You wont have cancelled the sending of the message.
> > 
> > It's also quite hard to make any promise to the user about his
> > cancellation. You never know how far it got. You also don't control what
> > the SMTP server will do with the partial message.
> 
> So, would you be in favour of adding the start/stop_operation stuff to
> the send queue?

What about convincing me with a fine patch? :)

But yes, it would be nice to get cancellations right for transport
relating things.


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