Hello there perl monks,

I am looking to write a quick sendmail replacement for use in other scripts. My problem is that I am working in an environment where I am limited to the number of emails I can send per hour. I want to make sure that I never exceed that limit. My hosting company tracks my number sent in an hour internally so I only get a notice from them when I exceed it. Since I have multiple applications running on the host that all may generate email (most PHP, some PERL), I wanted to have them send the mail to a central script that would ensure the max has not been reached and then either send the email using sendmail or queue it up for the next hour.

I know how to do all the counting and resetting stuff. Does anyone know how to make the script look like a sendmail like program as far as PHP’s mail functions are concerned?

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