Re: How to send mail from C program on Linux

Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:36:30 +0100

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-c-programming
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In my project I need to send mail on Linux.
> I have used sendmail to send mail but there are failed to send mail to my gmail account.
>
well there is always ugly insecure brute force:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc,char ** argv){
        char cmd[128];
        sprintf(cmd,"/usr/bin/mail -v root < /tmp/mail");
        system(cmd);
        return 0;
}

hofrat