Re: Socket Programming

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Victor,

Actually a sleep wouldn't be needed if select() was used with a
timeout value.  rfc5321
 states that the client should give the server 10 minutes to process
information after the DATA portion of the email ends.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Victor Hunt <xlcfdp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've run across an RPG program that uses socket APIs to send an email. Once
> the socket is setup and opened, the program uses a subroutine to do all the
> send/receive functions. Just after the send, the subroutine runs the sleep
> API with a parameter of 1 second. It appears the original intent was to
> give the email server and/or network time to produce/deliver a response
> before the receive API runs. Does anyone think this built in delay is
> really necessary? Depending on what is being sent, this program can run for
> a very long time with these roughly 1 second delays. Also, the program
> doesn't do anything with the received data collected after the send API. Is
> it really necessary to do a receive after a send? Seems I can tighten this
> up a bit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vic
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