perl timeout

[przytulaguy]

We are starting some perl jobs in windows.
the last step is to ship a mail with the job/status-result
when the smtp server is down (?) the perl job gets in a hang condiition because of waiting on the ship mail
Is there any possibility in perl or other to avoid this hang and to specifiy that if a jobs runs longer than 5minutes, we cancel/abort
We are check nbr of concurrent running perl jobs and reach a limit and do not start any new jobs anymore
Thanks fo all information/help
Best Regards, Guy Przytula

 

[PaulTEG]

How are you sending mails, you could use any SMTP server that's visible to you, ie your ISP.

Paul
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[przytulaguy]

we ship mail with builtin function of perl. there is a library that can be included that gives these options.
we use the smtp server on our network, also used for external mail deliveries.
There is no timeout option on this
Best Regards, Guy Przytula

 

[PaulTEG]

Can we see the code? Net::SMTP on

http://search.cpan.org

is a useful utility, or you could just use sendmail.

Paul
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