Modify/Create a ticket responses poorly with a slow SMTP server

[chenj@…]

With SMTP notification enabled, and a slow SMTP server, operations such as modify/create tickets will response poorly.

To improve responsivity, some asynchronous mechanism may need to be employed. In such a mechanism, pending emails may reside in a queue, and the queue may be backed by a persistent storage, in case of a sudden crash, the pending emails can be resent.

Attachment is a script which will improve responsivity. It's compatible with the "SendmailEmailSender interface". To use it, you need:

• set mailcache dir and SMTP stuffs in the script.
• set trac.ini:

  [notification]
  email_sender = SendmailEmailSender
  sendmail_path = /path/to/mailSender.py
  smtp_enabled = true
  

[chenj@…]

The second version of mailSender.py: fix mis-use of pyinotify

[Christian Boos]

Thanks for your contribution. However, a ticket is not the best place to give some visibility to this. You'd better setup a "hack" on TracHacks.

(and please have a look at our TracDev/CodingStyle, while not strictly necessary to follow them for being hosted on TracHacks, following these advices can't hurt)