From: "Olaf van der Spek" <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Pipe to sendmail (like Perl)
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Hi,

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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Olaf van der Spek
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