I thought I posted blat and getmail on our site but I guess I didn't. sorry. I'll add it to the list. Dr.X -----Original Message----- From: ai_group-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ai_group-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Garner Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:38 PM To: ai_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ai_group] sending e-mail 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