From: "Olaf van der Spek" <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL>
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Subject: Re: Pipe to sendmail (like Perl)
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 19:44:27 GMT
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"Damian Yerrick" <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> schreef in
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> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:30:57 GMT, "Olaf van der Spek"
> <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL> wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> By not using DOS.  DOS doesn't really support pipes like Eunuchs does.
>

I tried it on a Unix server.

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