Enum OutgoingEmailOrigin

Namespace

MailFathom.Domain.Delivery

Assembly

MailFathom.Domain.dll

Names what kind of authored act asked for a message to be sent.

public enum OutgoingEmailOrigin

Fields

Command = 1

Somebody asked for the message directly, through a tool call or an administrative command.

Rule = 0

A rule matched an email and asked for the message without anybody present.

Schedule = 2

An occasion of a recurring send the owner declared came round, and asked for that occurrence.

The act was authored once and the occasion is what asks, which is why the identity is the declaration and the occasion together rather than a key somebody supplies per occurrence: nobody is present when the message is composed, and two instances reaching one occasion have to compose one request rather than two messages.

Remarks

The two differ in what makes a request the same request. A rule asks on its own, repeatedly, so its identity has to survive the run it was evaluated in and change when the rule itself changes; somebody present asks once, so the identity is theirs to supply and a retried call carries the one the first call carried. Keeping the kind beside the identity is what lets an operator read a stuck send and know whether to look at a rule or at something they did.

Nothing composes a message on its own initiative, and every member here names an act somebody authored: a schedule asks on an occasion rather than on its own behalf, and what it repeats is a message its owner wrote once.