It is good if we can have asynchronous for our .Net application

Question

Hi,

As you may have already know, default .Net mail engine can already send the email async. I am thinking this feature is a must have. Would you consider developing it?

Cordially,
Goh

Comments

Smtp class doesn't queue messages for sending. Async method would help when sending a single message, for bulk sending you'd need to create additional queue.

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Do you mean we shall implement message queue instead of using Async for email messaging?

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It depends on the volume. Are you facing any problems right now?

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Actually I have some problem when the email sending is taking too long. The application seems like hanging when the email taking too long to be sent. So now I use some trick to solve it temporary. I use scheduler but the email will only be sent in an interval of 5 minutes. I just hope if I could make it more spontaneous.

Answer 1

Latest version includes full async support:
https://www.limilabs.com/mail/download

[Edit]

Use

Task.Run(() => DoWork()); 

DoWork should contain entire Smtp logic not just SendMessage call.

Comments

Thanks. I think that will solve the problem as well.

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This just runs the code on a separate thread. Async is more than that - it can free-up the thread during a network i/o operations.