[Coco] email sent from a CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 28 March 2010, aawolfe at gmail.com wrote:
>Tonight I wrote a very simple SMTP client in BASIC09 that works in the
> style of the unix mail command, it takes a couple arguments on the
> command line (to: address and subject) and then creates a message with
> the body read from standard input.
>
>This makes it easy to turn the output of any regular OS-9 command into an
> email.  I'm going to send this very message (which I'm saving in the file
> /dd/work/message1.txt) using the following command:
>
>list /DD/WORK/message1.txt ! sendmail ("coco at maltedmedia.com","email sent
> from a CoCo")
>
>.and hopefully, if all goes well.. this will result in a post to the
> mailing list right from my CoCo.  I suppose if it doesn't work, noone
> will know :)
>
>I'll include the source in the next DriveWire beta package if anyone is
> interested.  Might be useful to be able to generate emails from the CoCo,
> its a neat trick at least.  A mail reader would be possible if there is
> interest in such a thing.
>
>-Aaron
>
Looks like it worked from here Aaron, or I'm seeing things again.  UFO's and 
such... ;-)


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