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C0D4
5y

Why!!!
Why must some devs make life complicated!!!!!!

So, here I am enjoying my day (well enjoying the meetings that are taking me away from working) when I get a bug report that script X isn't sending out emails anymore.

Ok that's weird, this as far as I know uses the same email class as every other email being sent out from this project, and they all work.

Let's go have a quick dig...

function sendEmail(){
/*do a bunch of stuff*/
}
Is being used, well that's odd, it should be $emailService->send()
But what ever, it's probably an old wrapper for legacy sake since this script was written years ago. But nope, I almost cried, it's a wrapper for mail() isolated into this script.

Like for fucks sake, why in the hell would this be used when there's an entire fucking class that's tried and tested and only looses 1 email every few months, coz shit happens.

Errrrr.... sometimes i really wonder why people can't just do what they need to do the first time round.

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  • 1
    Just looses one email every few month? I hope it's nothing legally binding...
  • 1
    @EdoPhoenix nope.

    Using AWS SES, and every once in a while an email just never makes it to the other end, send again exactly the same way and it's fine. It's odd but very rare.
  • 5
    One of my first reality checks with dev work was that my cool layer of abstraction is your pointless indirection and baffling complexity.

    It's funny how one of the hardest to learn skills is to know when your fix isn't needed.
  • 1
    @C0D4 yeah ok I think that's amazons fault experienced that too
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