[ai_group] sending e-mail
- From: "David Garner" <dgarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ai_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:37:57 -0500
John,
I noticed your e-mail query in the BCX group. I've also looked at Blat.
The source is available and it's pretty easy to understand (if you know
what you're looking for) as I recall.
I did an e-mail sending thing at work. It's pretty easy. Let's see
what I remember. Na, I'll go look it up.
You can get blat from:
http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html
I just did.
(You can check this out from telnet. Just open port 25 and enter the
commands by hand.)
Open a connection to the mail server on port 25.
The mail server answers with a short message and expects you to say:
HELO
I just tested it on my ISP's mail server. It wanted a domain name after
helo. I put my server's domain. I think this is to prevent forwarding.
Then you put the from address - it's spelled like:
MAIL From:
Then you put the list of recipients:
RCPT To:
I think there has to be a space after the colon before the addresses.
Then you tell it you are going to start the message:
DATA
Then you put the message text on how ever many lines you need.
The last line is a dot by itself.
.
I think you can then drop the connection and the message will be sent.
My server allows:
quit
My server also has a pretty impressive help.
Hope this helps you some. I'm no expert, but I've done this before and
I know it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.
David Garner
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