Hi, Sorry the digging up an old thread, I'm a bit behind on my reading of django-dev.
I have a patch in the bug tracker that fixes this exact problem - http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11565. The patch is just over a year old now so it might not apply that cleanly to the current trunk. The patch works by caching an MD5 of the traceback for each error with a timeout of settings.ERROR_EMAIL_RATE_LIMIT minutes. This prevents the same error being sent more than once in the time. It's not perfect because a single error might cause multiple tracebacks and you'd get one email for each distinct one. It's definitely better than the current situation though. It also relies on you having a cache backend set up. Unfortunately I never did get time to write unittests for it, and unittesting something like this is quite hard because of the timeout involved. Hope this is useful, Andrew On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Simon Litchfield <si...@slicmedia.com> wrote: > Hi all > > Default behaviour of sending an email on 500 error is great. > > Problem is on high traffic sites, and you might just be making a quick > update- literally within seconds you can bring your mail server down- > crash your mail client- or render your gmail account useless. > > With "batteries included" and "production ready" ethos in mind, I > reckon this needs fixing. > > 1) Max emails per minute setting > > 2) Include alternative error handler middleware in core > > I haven't tried it yet, but this looks interesting (note web2py > includes this) -- > http://bitbucket.org/ashcrow/django-error-capture-middleware/wiki/Home > > Thoughts? I know I'm not the only one who has run into this (Russ?) > > Cheers > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
