Did I do a boo boo?
Hi PN
I've been working on my email server again recently. As it's multithreaded, I needed to be sure it was handling objects properly and freeing them up etc when it should. Unfortunately I did something stupid and uncommented a couple of lines of code in a moment of madness in an onDisconnect event which cleared a stringlist and then free'd it.
Anyway many EAccessViolations later and I decided to re-write bits, test bits etc. Eventually I got to the bottom of it by changing the code but needed to send a lot of emails to it to test it (by this I mean test that the threads are updating the GUI without causing problems etc). Now due to your unique email server setup I prefer to send emails through you which then bounce back and recycle the same connection (also opening other connections if needed). I think your email server rocks in this respect as my own website will open and close a connection per email which is pointless. Your server allows me to test my live monitor counters etc are working correctly.
Anyway today I think I might of overdone it. I sent a LOT of test emails through your system (something like 1000 I think) in just a couple of minutes. Now they are only text and contain one line saying "This is a test email" but a few minutes later I can send nothing - nor through my own website! Yikes - no more testing!
To add insult to injury I realised that I'd caused it all by uncommenting those two lines in my ondisconnect event as the stringlist was still being used in a notify thread
Am I still able to use your email server for testing or am I now blocked? - Only reason I ask is that my test email sending program can't connect to my website either via port 25 and I'm wondering if you blocked me?
Sorry for any hassle this may have caused..
I've been working on my email server again recently. As it's multithreaded, I needed to be sure it was handling objects properly and freeing them up etc when it should. Unfortunately I did something stupid and uncommented a couple of lines of code in a moment of madness in an onDisconnect event which cleared a stringlist and then free'd it.
Anyway many EAccessViolations later and I decided to re-write bits, test bits etc. Eventually I got to the bottom of it by changing the code but needed to send a lot of emails to it to test it (by this I mean test that the threads are updating the GUI without causing problems etc). Now due to your unique email server setup I prefer to send emails through you which then bounce back and recycle the same connection (also opening other connections if needed). I think your email server rocks in this respect as my own website will open and close a connection per email which is pointless. Your server allows me to test my live monitor counters etc are working correctly.
Anyway today I think I might of overdone it. I sent a LOT of test emails through your system (something like 1000 I think) in just a couple of minutes. Now they are only text and contain one line saying "This is a test email" but a few minutes later I can send nothing - nor through my own website! Yikes - no more testing!
To add insult to injury I realised that I'd caused it all by uncommenting those two lines in my ondisconnect event as the stringlist was still being used in a notify thread
Am I still able to use your email server for testing or am I now blocked? - Only reason I ask is that my test email sending program can't connect to my website either via port 25 and I'm wondering if you blocked me?
Sorry for any hassle this may have caused..
Hi Sprite,
It'll have just been the automated tarpitting and should only have been in effect for an hour, we've certainly not applied any blocks manually to the account as there's no ticket on your account
Hope everything's back to working normally for you?
It'll have just been the automated tarpitting and should only have been in effect for an hour, we've certainly not applied any blocks manually to the account as there's no ticket on your account
Hope everything's back to working normally for you?
You should be fine to, yes - though if you could try and keep the number of emails in an hour down a bit you should avoid getting locked out again. Anything around 500 or so (there's some margin there as far as I'm aware) should be alright.
To answer your questions, nothing else will happen now, yes you can carry on using the server this way though please bear in mind the above, don't think we have any particularly busy time periods to bear in mind so no worries there and yes but I don't think it's hard set (and I'm not aware what the actual limit is either I'm afraid).
Hope that helps
To answer your questions, nothing else will happen now, yes you can carry on using the server this way though please bear in mind the above, don't think we have any particularly busy time periods to bear in mind so no worries there and yes but I don't think it's hard set (and I'm not aware what the actual limit is either I'm afraid).
Hope that helps
Ok thanks!
I think I'm making progress with the synchronisation bugs now (Indy sockets aren't exactly straight forward in this respect) so hopefully I'll be able to slow down the email testing for a bit. Unfortunately for me though I have the client admin program to work on next which will see a TCPServer also running in the same .exe as the smtp server. More thread hell
Anyway thanks for your help Matt!
I think I'm making progress with the synchronisation bugs now (Indy sockets aren't exactly straight forward in this respect) so hopefully I'll be able to slow down the email testing for a bit. Unfortunately for me though I have the client admin program to work on next which will see a TCPServer also running in the same .exe as the smtp server. More thread hell
Anyway thanks for your help Matt!
