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is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?

parser wrote:

> is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?

What exactly do you have in mind ? If you already
have in some file the text you want to email then you
only have to use something like system("mail") or whatever
command your platform uses to send emails. But if you
want some library where you specify a file which will be the
body of the email plus additional files which will serve as
attachments and the library will combine those in a file which
satisfies the MIME protocoll then I don't know. Actually I'm
planning to write such a library myself eventually.

parser wrote:
>
> is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?

Standard. Look up putc().

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parser said:

> is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?

Why not just fish out the appropriate RFC and knock up your own?

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Richard Heathfield wrote:

> parser said:
>
> > is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?
>
> Why not just fish out the appropriate RFC and knock up your own?

Because life is short ?

Spiros Bousbouras said:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>
>> parser said:
>>
>> > is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?
>>
>> Why not just fish out the appropriate RFC and knock up your own?
>
> Because life is short ?

SMTP? Two monkeys, ten minutes.

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Richard Heathfield wrote:

> Spiros Bousbouras said:
>
> > Richard Heathfield wrote:
> >
> >> parser said:
> >>
> >> > is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?
> >>
> >> Why not just fish out the appropriate RFC and knock up your own?
> >
> > Because life is short ?
>
> SMTP? Two monkeys, ten minutes.

RFC821 is 67 pages. 10 minutes for 67 pages ?
I don't think so unless you're a rapid reading
wizard.

Spiros Bousbouras said:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>
>> Spiros Bousbouras said:
>>
>> > Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> >
>> >> parser said:
>> >>
>> >> > is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending
>> >> > emails?
>> >>
>> >> Why not just fish out the appropriate RFC and knock up your own?
>> >
>> > Because life is short ?
>>
>> SMTP? Two monkeys, ten minutes.
>
> RFC821 is 67 pages. 10 minutes for 67 pages ?
> I don't think so unless you're a rapid reading
> wizard.

You can skip the boring bits.

Seriously, SMTP is pretty easy. The hard bit of writing an email client is
/not/ the sending and receiving of email. It's all the stuff around the
edge - GUI, the various encodings, and so on. Sending the stuff is pretty
trivial. The protocol is a simple one.

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On 16 Sep 2006 05:31:53 -0700, "parser" <>
wrote:
>is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?

Maybe http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/

Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
> parser wrote:
>
> > is there any C library ( popular or standardized ) for sending emails?
>
> What exactly do you have in mind ? If you already

i know of libesmtp but i want a portable one that has bindings on
almost all the platforms(UNIX/WINDOWS). if there isnt a one i would
have to write my own.

> have in some file the text you want to email then you
> only have to use something like system("mail") or whatever
> command your platform uses to send emails. But if you
> want some library where you specify a file which will be the
> body of the email plus additional files which will serve as
> attachments and the library will combine those in a file which
> satisfies the MIME protocoll then I don't know. Actually I'm
> planning to write such a library myself eventually.