Need to send email via C

lucasbl3 · 02-25-2004, 08:16 AM

Hello!
I would appreciate any help in this matter. I need to make a function that, receiving a destination address, subject and body, sends an email.
It seems one of the possibilities is invoking, using the popen function, the mail client and then passing to it all the necessary components, which is making some troubles.
Is there a "cleaner" way of accomplishing this, like accessing some fuction from some api or anything like that?

Thanks a lot!

lone_nut · 02-25-2004, 08:48 AM

Well I don't know if there is any libary that allows you to send mail from c. But you could code your own. If you have never done any network programming before, i suggest you try to look at Beejs network programming guide it is very good.

itsme86 · 02-25-2004, 10:59 AM

You might want to just use the system() function to run the 'mail' command. It would be a whole lot easier

itsme86 · 02-25-2004, 11:04 AM

But if you're really interested in writing your own, here's a plugin that I wrote for TinyMAZE to allow sending e-mail from within the game. You'll probably have to play with the code at least a little bit. It does non-blocking I/O and such in its current form and is designed to work within TinyMAZE's plugin construct.

http://www.tinymaze.com/email.c