Stupid Pet Trick # 522

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 20 Jul 2007 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Thought I'd share a really silly developer story here. A while back I built a scheduler application for ASP.NET which checks a POP3 mail box and looks for certain content. The app just pulls all messages and deletes them as it finds them (optionally) and forwards them to another email address with special message formatting. The app runs as an ASP.NET application on a background thread so it's always on, always running. To make things even more interesting the app has a keep alive ping that pings...

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