Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:58:28AM +0100, Thomas Bretz wrote: > 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... There are at least millions of implentations of exactly this available, on windows, unix, ... Just call it externally, like this (not tested for errors): FILE *f=popen("external_program with arguments","w"); if(!f){ complain(); return; } fprintf(f,"I can send email.\n"); if(-1 == pclose(f)){ complain(); } On a well administered system "/bin/mail -s subject user@host" will do just fine. Chris -- Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. -- Francis Heaney
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