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C program using mailx

fluppet · 2005-12-24 20:37:02

Hi, I want to write a C program that sends an e-mail message from a Unix computer. In the past I have been able to do it as I have just written "mailx -s \"Subject\" someone@somewhere.com < message.txt" to buf, and then system(buf); would send the e-mail (message already written to message.txt). But now there are variables…

24-12-2005 09:37PM

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fluppet

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Hi,
I want to write a C program that sends an e-mail message from a Unix computer. In the past I have been able to do it as I have just written "mailx -s \"Subject\" someone@somewhere.com < message.txt" to buf, and then system(buf); would send the e-mail (message already written to message.txt). But now there are variables in the message, so I want the message copied to buf also (ie. message is not already written in a text file), but I can't work out how to do it... everything I have tried so far, mailx has either treated each word as another e-mail address, or mailx has sent an e-mail with no message, and then the system has tried to run each of the words in the message as a command. How do I do it?

Thanks, and Happy Christmas!

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#2 24-12-2005 10:00PM

Syth

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Could you not write the email to the file buffer.txt and then do what you just did?

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