Transaction safe mail sending

[avi]

Hi,

Is there a way to send mail only when the current transaction commits?

Right now I use renderer.render("...") but when the call returns the mail is already sent.

Because I could not find a way for transaction safe mail sending, I tried the following will as the second best:

1. when I call renderer.render not send the mail just render the Message and store it in the database


2. an asynchronous method checks this table and sends mail

But I am stuck because:

1. I do not know how to replace the transport with my implementation


2. how to find the original when I send the mails


3. how to serialize/deserialize the Message

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Viktor

[leonardinius]

From forum search:

• regarding transport setup


• one more semi-transactional strategy

[avi]

Thank you for your reply, but unfortunately I already found these posts and they are no help because:

1. The first post where I read that I should change the transport. But there is simply not enough information in the post for me to actually make it happen. And I need some kind of dynamic way to change the active transport and in the post they say it comes from a configuration file.


2. I don't really understand how the second post helps me. If I get it right it is about creating my own smtp server (or use a  third party one) to tunnel my emails. What you suggest is that I should send the mail to this local server, and write some flag to the database and the mail server should tunnel only those messages which have a flag in the database? (I think that this is a real overkill)

[pmuir]

Raise a onTransactionCompletionEvent and render the mail from the @Observer - you may need trunk to get the email rendering to work quite right in this event.