Re: Send email using SMTP from the command line...

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

You can't do this.  And why would you want to use Netscape and Outlook -
you don't need to.

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Ryan Allen wrote:

> 
> I have a program that is designed to send an email message using SMTP.
> 
> On Unix it does a system call to "mail" with the appropriate parameters.
> 
> On Windows I am using a program called "blat" that works the same way
> (that is -- my program does a system call to "blat" with the appropriate
> parameters.
> These programs then send the message from the current/local machine to
> the default SMTP Server out on the network.
> 
> Now I need to see if it is possible to call the popular email programs
> out there like Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange,
> Netscape Messenger, etc. and do the same thing.  An example would be to
> just give Microsoft Outlook (which would be running on the local
> machine)  the correct parameters and let Outlook pass everything to the
> SMTP Server.
> 
> So basically, do you know if there is a way to call these popular email
> programs on a Windows95/98/NT machine using the "system" call and pass
> the appropriate parameters?
> 
> This works:
> system(blat mailMessage.txt -s "My Subject Title" -t
> "name1@company.com")
> 
> So is there a way to use the system command to call the other programs
> too like:
> system(outlook mailmessage.txt -s "My Subject Title" -t
> "name1@company.com")
> 
> Also, do you have any idea where I could find information/documentation
> on this kind of thing too?  (I've been having a really hard time finding
> it.) Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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