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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</H1>
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On 01/01/98 at 01:55 PM, Stephen Zepp <zoran#enid,com> said:
> sprintf( mailbuf, "mail -s \"%s\" %s <%s%s",
> m_subject, m_address, MAIL_DIR, mfilename );
...
> system( mailbuf );
> sprintf( delbuf, "rm %s%s", MAIL_DIR, mfilename );
> system( delbuf );
A lurking and insidious problem here is that you don't detect when mail
delivery fails. This can be a bitch to a) notice when it happens, and b)
determine the cause when it does
I'd suggest putting in a signal handler which triggers on the child
dieing, and then reports an appropriate response to the user if the
delivery failed. It's fairly trivial to do: you can use any of your
standard IPC calls to handle reporting the failure/success code (I do it
with threads instead of full processes via, so I do the report back via
the thread object for the mailer thread).
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00279" HREF="msg00279.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00075" HREF="msg00075.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></strong>,
JC Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM">claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM</a>, Wed 07 Jan 1998, 00:22 GMT
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