Sending email from within a C program

KeitgB · 07-18-2005, 12:27 PM

Is there an API available to send email from within a C program on Linux?

paulsm4 · 07-18-2005, 02:07 PM

One possibility:

system ("echo SOME STUFF | mail -s 'MY SUBJECT' SOMEBODY@somewhere.com");

exvor · 07-18-2005, 04:04 PM

you can also use a popen with sendmail

this works just like working with files on the harddrive

Code:

FILE *command; 

command = popen ( "ps -A"."r");

this code would put the output of ps -A into the stream command that you could parse with sscanf or some other function to get the data or work with it.