[drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b1

[Terry Breitenfeldt]

Ideally, it would be nice if the receiving station stored the message until a working internet
connection became available, then it would complete the transmission.
 
Terry
 



> From: nate at natetech.com> To: drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:41:24 -0600> CC: drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b1> > Maybe an on/off switch in the GUI if you know your ip connectivity > comes and goes? (laptop)> > --> Nate Duehr> Sent from my iPhone> > On Oct 28, 2008, at 14:38, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:> > >> Last weekend we held a D-rats training session for our RACES group.> >> I encountered and interesting problem while trying to send an email> >> via another station. The other station didn't have a working> >> internet connection. I wanted to see what would happen if I sent the> >> other station an email destined for a hotmail account on the> >> internet. The other station completely locked up and we had to kill> >> the D-rats task via Task Manager to free things up.> >> > Okay, if there is really no network connection, it should time out> > immediately. This is really the operating system's job, so maybe> > Windows isn't doing the Right Thing (tm) here. In Linux, if there > > is no> > connection, it just immediately fails like you would expect.> >> > I don't control the timeout on a socket, so that's not really an > > option.> > What I can do is make it a thread so that it completes in the> > background instead of the GUI update thread.> >> > -- > > Dan Smith> > dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/> > www.danplanet.com> > KK7DS> >> > _______________________________________________> > drats_users mailing list> > drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> > http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users> >> _______________________________________________> drats_users mailing list> drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users
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