Question

Im using a gmail class so that my app can send me notification over gmail.

Its done like this:

public static void SendMessage(string message)
{
    Notification.message = message;

    Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(SendMessageThreaded));
    t.Start();
}

and the threaded function look like this:

private static void SendMessageThreaded()
{
    try
    {
        if (Notification.message != "")
            RC.Gmail.GmailMessage.SendFromGmail("accname", "accpass", "email", "subject", Notification.message);

        Notification.message = "";
    }
    catch
    { }
}

So after SendMessageThreaded is run, does it close by itself or do i have to

t.Start()
t.Abort()

or something?

Answer 1

The thread needs to be started once – at which point it will execute the code block assigned to it and exit.

You don’t need to explicitly clean up the thread in most cases (unless you want to bail out early for example )