simple libSMTP send example, help

[Alex Tweedly]

At 07:31 21/08/2004 -0700, Mark Brownell wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get  libSMTP to work for a basic simple email send.
>
>If I use this to add the libraries with the stacks added to my main stack 
>already:
>
>on openStack
>   start using stack "libEmail"
>   start using stack "libSmtp"
>end openStack
>
>on closeStack
>   stop using stack "libEmail"
>   stop using stack "libSmtp"
>end closeStack
>
>Then I need a few lines of code to send email to this destination:
>send "ABCDEFG test" to "gizmotron at earthlink.net" with subject "test send"
>
>or
>body = "ABCDEFG test"
>destination = "gizmotron at earthlink.net"
>subject  = "test send"
>
>I'm searching for a simple example of using libSmtp to send a plain text 
>email. I can't get the example to work from Shoe Sean's website example. I 
>think it is because I'm not sure how to use adding destinations and saving 
>and/or selecting them during a send. Anyway it crashes on an HTMLtext 
>handler. I'm using Rev 2.2 on Mac OSX. Does anyone have a basic email 
>stack or example of code using these libraries that sends a single email 
>without it being something that looks like it came from the source code of 
>a full blown email client?
>
>Having it report that the email was successfully sent looks like it is 
>part of the lib also.

Here's about the most basic you can get .... and it worked on only my 200th 
try :-)

>on mouseUp
>   put "alex at tweedly.net"&cr into mFrom
>   put "alex at tweedly.net" & lf & "alex at tweedly.com" & lf into mTo
>   put "A simple text message" & cr & "over two lines" into mMessage
>   put "smtp.btinternet.com" into mServer
>   put "25" into mPort
>   put "about to go " after msg
>   put libSmtp.send(mFrom, mTo, mMessage, mServer)
>   put the result after msg
>end mouseUp

Note - LF to separate the recipients

Note - I think I picked up an old version of the library, so you may need 
to change libSmtp.send to libSmtpSend if you have the later one from the 
appExample stack

Note  - this sends the message to two of my addresses. I did receive both 
copies; the one that came via the .com address (which forwards it to the 
.net one) looked OK
>Delivered-To: 1000-alex at tweedly.net
>From: alex at tweedly.net
>Bcc:
>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:51:55 +0200
>X-Provags-Forward: alex at tweedly.com -> alex at tweedly.net
>
>A simple text message
>over two lines

The one that came "direct" looked bad -
>Delivered-To: 1000-alex at tweedly.net
>
>
>A simple text message
>over two lines

and it had no "Who" (who from) entry in my Eudora inbox summary.

So you should use libEmail to fill in a more complete message.

-- Alex.