I'm writing a Perl script to connect to a database: 
my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Oracle:host=**,sid=***',
                       'usrname',
                       'passwd',
                      {
                        RaiseError => 1,
                        AutoCommit => 0
                      }
) || die "Database connection not made:$DBI::errstr";

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What I want is, when the database connection is NOT set up, the script should email me to let me know. But since the die command is there to terminate the program right after the unsuccessful connection, how do I add the command, like 'sendmail'?

In reply to how to deal with error message by 2007fld

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