From: Prashant TR <tr AT eth DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Pipe to sendmail (like Perl)
Date: 02 Jul 2000 23:49:44 +0530
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"Olaf van der Spek" <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL> writes:

> I try to use a C++ program to send a mail using sendmail on a Unix server.
> In Perl, you can use this:
> $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
>    open (MAIL, "|$mailprog $in{'address'}") || die "Can't open
> $mailprog!\n";
>    print MAIL "From: $admin_email\n";
>    print MAIL "Subject: You are added!\n\n";
>    print MAIL <<to_the_end;
> This is to confirm your addition to the $list_name.
> to_the_end
> 
> 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?

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