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llEmail Question - Takes a looooooong time to receive
Ozzie Bravo
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Join date: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 5
10-20-2004 18:00
Hey all!

Just wondering how long it takes others to receive emails sent with llEmail to an EXTERNAL email address?

It's taking me about an hour to receive them at addresses on several real world servers that I tested. Is this the average?

If so...if you're using llEmail to contact the outside world in order to announce an object to an outside server, so that the server can connect to your objects via the XML-RPC methods...is there a faster way?

I want to be able to rez an object and have it announce it's presence to my outside world server so that the server can then do various communications using XML-RPC...but it needs to be much faster...a minute or two at the most!

Emails within SL are very fast...that's not a problem.

Any help is much appreciated!

--Ozzie
Evil Fool
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Join date: 30 Jul 2004
Posts: 110
10-20-2004 18:02
Well, the servers may for some reason block the lindens email, although its unlikely

I was having problems setting up automatic forwarding, where a SL object emails my server, which forwards it back to SL.,..

So if you're trying to do that, then it won't work

Maybe the email function isnt even being called?
Ozzie Bravo
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Join date: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 5
10-20-2004 18:08
No...I get the emails...it just takes about an hour. I can see maybe one or two hosts having an issue, but I've tried several domains on different servers/accounts that I have.

Not trying to do any forwarding...just send an email using llEmail.

--Ozzie
Alondria LeFay
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Join date: 2 May 2003
Posts: 725
10-20-2004 18:21
From: Ozzie Bravo
No...I get the emails...it just takes about an hour. I can see maybe one or two hosts having an issue, but I've tried several domains on different servers/accounts that I have.

Not trying to do any forwarding...just send an email using llEmail.

--Ozzie


By my tests, the email is recieved to all the addresses I attempted in matter of seconds, definately not hours. With my email/rpc combo tests, I often get round trip times under a second.
Ozzie Bravo
Registered User
Join date: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 5
10-20-2004 18:33
Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

My test code:

CODE

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        //
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        string emailTo;
        string emailSubject;
        string emailMsg;
            
        emailTo = "someuser@some.com";
        emailSubject = "Email Test";            
        emailMsg = "Just a test message from SL.";
            
        llWhisper(0, "Sending email...");
        llEmail(emailTo, emailSubject, emailMsg);
    }
}


Hmmmmmmm...

--Ozzie
Zuzi Martinez
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Join date: 4 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,860
10-20-2004 21:25
i was trying this out the other night. i tried a couple different addresses and here two days later neither has received anything. same basically as Ozzie's stuff above.
Azelda Garcia
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Join date: 3 Nov 2003
Posts: 819
10-20-2004 21:35
Well, what if you send yourself an email from Yahoo? Does that work?

Azelda
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Azelda Garcia
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10-20-2004 21:36
Perhaps this has something to do with it?:

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Apotheus Silverman
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Join date: 17 Nov 2003
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10-21-2004 11:48
Email from SL has been slow for about 3 days.
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Ozzie Bravo
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Join date: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 5
10-21-2004 12:17
Lovely...guess I picked a great time to try to learn some of this stuff.

Would be nice to get XML-RPC fully functional instead of this mess. But, I guess there could still be problems with that.

Thanks for the help and input!

--Ozzie
Huns Valen
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Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
10-22-2004 12:59
llEmail() has an implicit delay of 20 seconds. When you call it, the mail goes out right away, but the script pauses for 20 seconds. This is to prevent productivity or something like that. :p
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