I have a perl/database/sendmail problem that I am not sure how to solve.
maybe someone could throw some brain at it:
I have a database that has records that have an index, such as:
index record
1001 blah blah
1002 blah duh
1003 balala
These records come from submissions made by people on my site: When a person
clicks "submit" their record is saved, then an email is sent to me using
sendmail.
I would like to have a way to check the emails that have been sent via
sendmail against the ones in the database so I can spot any errors that may
have occurred in the sendmail process. For example, let's say sendmail fails
for some reason (some loose and crazy process that stymies the system so
that sendmail is rendered useless, while perl and msql continue to
function). I'd like to compare a record of sent mail to the records in the
database, using the index as a key. Then I could spot any submissions that
were not sent out by sendmail.
I'm not familiar with the interworkings of sendmail and the files it keeps.
If anyone out there is, and would like to offer ideas, I'd be grateful. At
the very least, can anyone say whether it can or can't be done with Perl:
I'm not a C coder.
Thanks,
Jack
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