Sending an email

metroid · Post by **metroid** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:56 pm

Is it possible to send an email with tcl? If so how.
I know about something called sendmail but my shell doesn't seem to have it

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:11 pm

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exec echo "hi goober" | mail -s hello goober@mail.com

(this won't work on windrop of course)

metroid · Post by **metroid** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:37 am

well, it seems my bot is succesfully executing the command, but it doesn't seem to actually send an email as i tried sending one but it never got to my inbox

demond · Post by **demond** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:59 am

the standart UNIX utility mail(1) depends on sendmail to do its job; so if you don't have sendmail up & running, mail will not function

however, you can always code sending email in raw SMTP

metroid · Post by **metroid** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:20 am

I'm sure i could if i knew how :p

Post by **user** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:58 am

you could try the smtp package that comes with tcllib...
http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/smtp.html