[fpc-pascal]connecting to mailserver

[md]

Michael.VanCanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Kenneth Due wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone tried to send a mail from within a fpc program
> >
> > I'm trying to make a 'alarm program' to send a mail and/or a SMS via a
> > smtpgateway
> >
> > any simple solutions to this problem ?
> 
> On linux it's versy simple; one of the first examples:
> 
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Michael:

Where is the documentation for sendmail?

Looking for the place to where I could get details over the intricacies
of the pipe "sendmail"?

I would be interested in getting a result code back from sendmail about
errors in transmission.

Mark

> program sendmail;
> 
> Uses linux;
> 
> var F : Text;
> 
> begin
>   POpen(F,'sendmail me at myhost','W');
>   Writeln(F,'Subject: Sending a mail with fpc');
>   Writeln(F);
>   Writeln(F,'sending mails is very easy');
>   If PClose(F)=0 then
>     Writeln('Sent mail successfully')
> end.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> See linux unit documentation.
> 
> On windows, it's more hard, there you must use the 'mapi' dll;
> but that is a little more complicated.
> 
> Michael.
> 
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