| Issue Number | 3712 |
|---|---|
| Summary | Recover from Licensee Notification Failures |
| Created | 2014-02-03 18:08:52 |
| Issue Type | Improvement |
| Submitted By | Englisch, Volker (NIH/NCI) [C] |
| Assigned To | Englisch, Volker (NIH/NCI) [C] |
| Status | Closed |
| Resolved | 2014-02-26 18:36:12 |
| Resolution | Fixed |
| Path | /home/bkline/backups/jira/ocecdr/issue.118029 |
The SendEmail.py program fails when the NIH refused to deliver the
email message.
In the last 6 weeks or so the NIH mail server refused a connection
causing the program to fail. I'd like to investigate how to easily
recover from or ignore such failures on the FTP server.
I've modified the licensee notification email in two ways:
Instead of reading the licensee address file at the beginning and then writing the updated file line by line as the licensees are being notified I am now reading and writing the file after each notification. This has the advantage that the address file will always be available even if the job gets interrupted and the mailing fails.
I've added a new column to the file that's called 'Notified'. This column is set to 'Y' once a licensee has been notified. If the mailer process fails half-way through I've implemented a new option named '--rerun' that allows the operator to pick up from where we left off.
I will have to do a little more testing before this is complete.
I tested this program on DEV and added the ability to send a summary mail including the messages from both, a failed notification run and the following completion run, to the operator.
R12413: SendEmail.py
Due to last Monday's notification failure I've passed this program on to CBIIT ahead of the release and we identified a minor error. That was fixed with
R12472: SendEmail.py
The program ran successfully on PROD.
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