Email from C++

[Pinpoint]

Hi,

Can anyone point me to a Unix C++ email package. I need one I can install on my server and then #include and simply call a function from within my code to send a string of text as an email ? Please include the web-site URL where I can download.

Thanks.

 

[danielhozac]

Sending an email is not simple. The best thing to do is probably to hand the email off to your MTA, such as Sendmail.

//Daniel

 

[cdlvj]

It is very simple. You should have mutt on your system and simply built a command string.
syscode is a string object.


syscode.erase();
syscode.append("echo '"
syscode.append(Text);
syscode.append("' | mutt "

if (Attachment.length() > 0)
{
syscode.append("-a '"
syscode.append(Attachment);
syscode.append("' "
}

syscode.append("-s '"
syscode.append(Subject);
syscode.append("' "
syscode.append(EmailList);
sysc = (char *) syscode;
return (system(sysc));

 

[Pinpoint]

Thanks. What is mutt ? And where does it come from.

 

[cdlvj]

Mutt is an email client, and you should be able to get an rpm somewhere. Do a search on Mutt.

The mail unix command should also work, but I am not sure it will handle attachments. try man mail.