[Dev] Sharing invitation sending asyncness

[Morgen Sagen]

I agree the email layer shouldn't really have to know anything special 
about sending invitations, especially now that it doesn't need to 
detect inbound invites -- in fact, perhaps someday invitations could 
also be transmitted by other means, IM, etc.

On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Bryan Stearns wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Currently, when we send sharing invitations, the messages are sent 
> asynchronously; the sharing code doesn't have a way of finding out 
> whether the sending was successful (and therefore, no way to help the 
> user adjust to a mailing or addressing failure).
>
> I'm thinking that the sharing-invitation generation stuff should move 
> into the UI layer: the UI layer (specifically, 
> MainView.onShareItemEvent, or something factored out from it) would 
> create the message objects, initiate sending, wait for sending to 
> complete or fail, then examine the message to check success. What do 
> you think?
>
> ...Bryan
>
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