On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:44:35 +0200, Jan Bakuwel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>
>> The return value of eomReceived is used to determine whether to signal to
>> the SMTP client whether the message has been accepted. Regardless of your
>> application logic, if you are taking responsibility for the message, you
>> should return a successful result. If all of your processing is
>> synchronous,
>> then you simply need to return twisted.internet.defer.succeed(None) at the
>> end of the function. If you have asynchronous processing to do (it does
>> not
>> appear as though you do), you will need to return a Deferred which only
>> fires
>> once that processing has been completed.
>
>There's still a bit of mystery in here for me...
>I'll be taking responsibility for the message in my code... but perhaps
>my code encounters a non resolvable error (such as disc full). In that
>case I would like to be able to signal a failure instead of success.
>
>Would the following code do the job "properly"?
>
> def eomReceived(self):
> # message is complete, store it
> self.lines.append('') # add a trailing newline
> messageData = '\n'.join(self.lines)
> emailMessage = message_from_string(messageData)
> try:
> processEmail(emailMessage)
> return defer.succeed(None)
> except:
> return defer.fail
> #end eomReceived
Close. Return defer.fail() and it's basically correct. Sorry for the
delayed response, python-list is high enough traffic that tracking down
followups is kind of a hassle. You might want to move over to the Twisted
list for further Twisted questions.
Jean-Paul
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