Re: Sharing STDIN after fork

It seems like you are trying to cram a great deal of functionality into a single piece of code, and I'm not sure this is the easiest approach.

You could diversify by having one piece of code receive E-Mail requests from the CRM (or poll the CRM for outstanding requests), and add those to a database table. Another piece of code could look for unsent table entries, build the content (so that's where the template would get used), store the result back in the database table, send the E-Mail, and update the table with the result. Finally, a simple CGI could show the most recent table entries and their status (Not sent, Processing, Processed -- with link to text that was sent).

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re^2: Sharing STDIN after fork by Bod (Parson) on Feb 13, 2022 at 22:34 UTC
It seems like you are trying to cram a great deal of functionality into a single piece of code Yes...having slept on it, I have sort of come to the same conclusion! I am definitely thinking that feeding the people that need an email into a database table is a better approach. That seems to give several advantages: The list of emails to send doesn't get lost if there is some inturuption People who are sent two different emails can have them automagically separated by a few hours There's less for the sending script to contend with - it just picks the next address from the database and sends	[reply]
Re^3: Sharing STDIN after fork by talexb (Chancellor) on Feb 14, 2022 at 04:43 UTC
Great! This also follows the Unix philosophy, which is to have a variety of tools, each of which is excellent at doing one specific thing (with some obvious exceptions). Those tools can then be combined into a larger machine to complete a much more complicated task. Alex / talexb / Toronto Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013. Edit: Add the missing word 'complete' to the last sentence. Ugh.	[reply]
Re^4: Sharing STDIN after fork by Bod (Parson) on Feb 14, 2022 at 16:11 UTC
As it happens, today a new feature has been suggested that will necessitate holding the information in a database table - namely being able to schedule the email sending for some time in the future. So I will either be implementing it this way or perhaps using Minion as suggested by etj	[reply]