Re: first stab at simple mailer

[Jan Grant <jan.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> >     * Wrap calloc, malloc, strdup, etc.
> 
> I wouldn't know how to gracefully handle failures, especially concerning queue
> business etc.

An explicit "log and abort" is a valid exception-handling strategy, 
especially since you've stated that this is mostly a simple cutdown 
mailer. If you can't think of any other way to handle those kinds of 
errors, it's not a failure to crash out in a controlled way (and better 
than the "traditional" C approach* :-) )

jan

* "never check for an error you don't know how to handle"

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