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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Subject: Re: How to send mail from C program on Linux
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:36:30 +0100
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, darshan.ghumare@gmail.com 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