Hi, few more comments: Instead of using "/bin/mail" (mail user agent) you can also use /usr/sbin/sendmail (mail transfer agent), with TSystem::OpenPipe() etc. Check, for example, a book about sendmail at http://www.busan.edu/~nic/networking/ Regards. Valeriy > Hi, > > > You must be kidding :-))) > > > > No, just kidding. A few years ago were being accused of doing everything > > in ROOT, and that in the next version we will send email from TObject > > and turn on the coffee machine. > > > > I think it might nice to have a SMTP class that allows one to send email > > for reporting (but not in TObject :-)). Maybe for the time being you > > could survive with using TSystem::OpenPipe() to send a mail message > > using "/bin/mail". > > > > If you mail me a TSMPT (TMail) I will consider it. > > I do not think we need it as a ROOT class. I'll prepare a macro for > $ROOTSYS/tutorial/sendmail.C with TSMPT class inside > which will demonstrate an usage of TSocket classes. Be done today. > > Regards. Valeriy > > > > > > > Cheers, Fons. > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 08:58, Thomas Bretz wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > is it possible to send eMails from the root environment? It would be a > > > very nice feature if root is able to access an SMTP host, eg for sending > > > reports about automatic procedures... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Thomas. > > -- > > Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. > > Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland > > E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 > > WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480 > > > > > >
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