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I am in search of a easy way to send an email from from my GTK app via
C++. A library, or API is what I am looking for I think. I do not think I
want to use the system() function to pass what I need to sendmail.

In fact I would like to do this from a machine that does not have sendmail
installed.

I do not think I want to code all of this myself. Meaning opening a socket
to a smtp server, dealing with mime types, and etc to send my email.
Unless of course someone has or knows of a good example of this.

Anyone have any suggestions, links, or recommendations?

Thanks

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Sincerely,
William

William L. Thomson Jr. enlightened us with:

Quote:> I am in search of a easy way to send an email from from my GTK app via
> C++. A library, or API is what I am looking for I think.

Search for "smtp api" on www.freshmeat.net - should give you plenty of
stuff.

Sybren
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Quote:>I do not think I want to code all of this myself. Meaning opening a socket
>to a smtp server, dealing with mime types, and etc to send my email.
>Unless of course someone has or knows of a good example of this.

>Anyone have any suggestions, links, or recommendations?

The smart way is to get an smtp library, which will allow you to
send mail.  If you don't want the external dependency, then
sending via smtp directly is very very simple.

First, open a connection to the domain mail server of the
intended destination.  You can lookup the mx from the domain
DNS.

Second, the port to open is 25.

Third, all you have to do is read/write the SMTP protocol.
Here's a primer.

http://opop.nols.com/write/SMTP.html

Torsten