[Tfug] email question

[Andrew Ayre]

Some random ideas (I'm sure there are better ones out there):

  - work out the command line for sendmail or mail to send an email,
maybe something like:

    /usr/bin/sendmail some_options < /tmp/message.txt

  then generate /tmp/message.txt and use system() to call the command

  - write a perl script that reads from stdin or a file and sends an
email. Call the perl script from your C application. This has the
advantage in that you can use the perl CPAN modules for sending emails,
complete with attachments, etc. Also probably more portable between systems

  - find a C library for linux that can send emails

Hope this helps, Andy

Joe Blais wrote:
>> Andrew Ayre
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:21 PM
>> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] email question
>>
>>
>> Which programming language or scripting language are you using?
>>
>> For perl and PHP you can get modules that make sending emails (with
>> attachments, etc.) easier. Also in C (and the other languages) you can
>> use system() to execute programs like sendmail, etc.
>>
>> Andy
>>
> 
> Andy, Hello
> 
> C/C++
> 
> I am/was planning on making system calls to unix/linux command line e-mail
> applications.
> 
> I was looking at sendmail.org.  It appears as though setting it up isn't
> just a matter of setting some config stuff.  It appears as though it's, to
> some degree, recompiled or reconfigured using make and m4 "stuff".  That
> seems like a configuration headache to figure out what stuff I need to
> include on the final system.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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