Question

I am using ActionMailer.net to send emails from my MVC website, the problem is that sending an email some times takes few seconds, and this delay my ajax calls.

I tried to use DeliverAsync() but the same delay is still there, I call the ActionMailer controller action like this:

new EmailController().EntryEmail(CurrentUser, CurrentUser, postText).DeliverAsync();

So my question is, is there a way to call the same Action but in another thread or async.

Notes:
I tried to make the ActionMailer controller inherits from AsyncController but couldn’t because it is already inheriting from another class.

Also for reference I asked this question before: Is it fine to send email from another thread like this?

Answer 1

Why not create a new base class that inherits from AsyncController?

For a simple fire and forget you can use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem.

Personally, I prefer to queue emails and have a separate background thread process the queue. This can be as simple as an “Email” table in a database and a System.Threading.Timer