>Any advice on how to handle the following:-
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>One form in my application has a timer that triggers every 15 minutes.
>This runs code that can last up to 2 minutes (sending and retrieving emails using westwind).
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>In the meantime the user is "stuck", as the form they were working on is not available until the code has finished running.
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>What can I do to give the user a better experience?
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>Any suggestions are welcome.
>
>Cyril

Why not have the timer either run a dedicated external app for email processing or just have an external app running all the time just for email.