<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp --> <!--X-From-R13: pbqreNvoz.arg --> <!--X-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 00:44:37 +0000 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 199801020044.AAA26292#out5,ibm.net --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 34ABF4A4.BEBC6212#enid,com --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:coder#ibm,net"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00006.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00008.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00003.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00008.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00007">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00007">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00007">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#null,net">mud-dev#null,net</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</A></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 01 Jan 98 16:41:42 -0800</LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> 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). -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw#null,net ----------(*) Internet: coder#ibm,net ...Honourary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith... </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00008" HREF="msg00008.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> Shawn Halpenny <malachai#iname,com></li></ul> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00003" HREF="msg00003.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> Stephen Zepp <zoran#enid,com></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00006.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00008.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00003.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00008.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00007"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00007"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00279" HREF="msg00279.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 22 Jan 1998, 11:45 GMT </LI> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00275" HREF="msg00275.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>, Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 22 Jan 1998, 07:05 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00281" HREF="msg00281.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>, Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Thu 22 Jan 1998, 14:59 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00003" HREF="msg00003.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></strong>, Stephen Zepp <a href="mailto:zoran#enid,com">zoran#enid,com</a>, Thu 01 Jan 1998, 19:51 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00007" HREF="msg00007.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></strong>, coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Fri 02 Jan 1998, 00:44 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00008" HREF="msg00008.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></strong>, Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Fri 02 Jan 1998, 16:05 GMT <UL> <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 <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00084" HREF="msg00084.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Mail from mud Zoran's final Imp</A></strong>, Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Wed 07 Jan 1998, 14:50 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00002" HREF="msg00002.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics)</A></strong>, Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 01 Jan 1998, 18:42 GMT </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>