Improvement: Mail Queue Service Delay

Question

Within the administration gui under outgoing mail when setting up an SMTP mail server, an input field should be added to allow us (administrators) to determine the amount of delay in seconds. Zero (0) would mean no delay send when event is created. One (1) or greater would delay the mail for that duration.

Personally, I do not want a delay at all.

Russ Frizzell · Answer

One improvement that could be made is to allow the poll time to be in seconds and then the mail queue service could simply check if a mail queue process is still running when it kicks off. If so, it does not spawn another process and waits until the next poll. If the age of the running instance is larger than a particular (maybe configurable) value, then it could kill the running process and re-run.

That could provide JIRA admins the option of lowering polling rates.

Brant Messenger · Answer

Admins need a way to NOT QUEUE EMAILS so that the SMTP server, Jira is connecting to, will handle that queuing for the system. Resulting in "Email Queue" issues being eliminated.

Brant Messenger · Answer

Please define "might cause a lot of problem in the future". My personal opinion is stated in my improvement request. I will not close this issue until a direct answer is set. Either you won't improve jira or you will add to your improvement list?