From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: Pipe to sendmail (like Perl)
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On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:30:57 GMT, "Olaf van der Spek"
<Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL> wrote:

>So in C++, I tried:
>void send_mail(const string& from, const string& to, const string& subject,
>const string& body)
>{
> ofstream mail;
> mail.open("|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t");
> if (!mail.is_open())
>  cout << "Can't open pipe to sendmail" << endl;
> mail << "To: " << to << endl
>  << "From: " << from << endl
>  << "Subject: " << subject << endl
>  << body;
>}
>
>But that didn't work, I got the error "Can't open pipe to sendmail".
>Anybody knows how this could be solved?

By not using DOS.  DOS doesn't really support pipes like Eunuchs does.

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