mail problems

[ax666]

good morning. today I tried to get email to work and found this:
- mail node doesn't work without specifying a template (npe)
- if connection to smtp server fails, exception is printed and process hangs
- exception-handler is not supported wihtin mail node

really guys, did anyone test this? what is this email support for if you have to write your own action handler anyways?
alex

[ax666]

also it looks like "mail.class.name" doesn't work. I specified a custom mail class in jbpm.cfg.xml, but it doesn't get called, at least not from a mail node.
this is frustrating.

[ax666]

even worse, if mail node is async, the process flow will simply stop, without even printing an exception, and if debug logging is off, nothing points you to what is happening.

[kukeltje]

what are you trying to achieve? There is no need to write your own actionhandler to get mail to work...

[ax666]

I'm trying to use email without having to fear the process flow will stop if mail sending fails.
with in a (async) node it does stop too. there's no useful exception handling for this case.

[ax666]

the last one was ment to be:

with

<mail>

in a (async) node it does stop too. there's no useful exception handling for this case.