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Sending email thro' C program
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Well the quick answer is to prepare a text file containing the text you want to send, then create a command like this
You can omit the temporary file by doing something like
You should note that system() can be somewhat insecure. If this is a concern of yours, then you need to mimic all the process and redirection stuff yourself through the use of fork() execl() pipe() dup() system calls.
Code:
char cmd[200];
char to[] = "user@host";
char subject[] = "testing 1 2 3";
sprintf( cmd, "mail -s %s %s < file.txt", subject, to );
system( cmd );You can omit the temporary file by doing something like
Code:
FILE *fp;
char cmd[200];
char to[] = "user@host";
char subject[] = "testing 1 2 3";
sprintf( cmd, "mail -s %s %s", subject, to );
fp = popen( cmd, "w" );
fprintf( fp, "Hello world\n" ); // the message to send
pclose( fp );You should note that system() can be somewhat insecure. If this is a concern of yours, then you need to mimic all the process and redirection stuff yourself through the use of fork() execl() pipe() dup() system calls.
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