Thread: Help doing an e-mail program in c...

ok..I think I will not worry with this problem..its minimal, they shouldn't mind not having the {}'s in the .txt...
Now I need to know how to make the program, when inicialized, read all the info in the mail.txt, and transform it into vectors so it can be manipulated....
for example, I need to be able to press "h" and be presented with the mails in mail.txt this way:
1 > (subject) ( date) ( from)
2 > .........
3 > ..........

then I need a comand that erases the mails when I press "d1" or "d2" it eraes mail 1 or mail 2 , respectively(sp?).... but right now my concern is the program to read the mail.txt and pass all the mails to a struct...
could you explain me how to do it please?

I started the program just now because I didn't think it would be so difficult,lol... I only need a positive grade and I will be satisfied,

Originally Posted by Emmanuel Delaha

A header is not a good place for a function (unless you have C99 and 'inline'). You really want to write this cleanup function or to write some get_line() function of your own including fgets() and the clean-up code I supplied.

Of course, I'm not going to give you a 100% working solution. You have to adapt the code. How is the 'line' named in this case ?
Please shake your brain... We are not going to think for you for the rest of your life...

oh..I think I understand now...Thanks a lot, and sorry for the bother...I'm going to try to do more things alone, I promise

I have been searching my "c" book for how to pass a file to a struct that can then be manipulated...but I can't find anything..
I have to read the mails from "mail.txt" and pass them to structs, to be able to manipulate them in the program, like viewing the mails and being able to erase the ones I want..
can you help me with this?I believe it's really the last difficult step in the rpogram..then it's just some printfs to show the info, and the delete command..
Be Well

Originally Posted by caroundw5h

wow this sounds a lot like...uhmmmm let me see.....oh yeah - HOMEWORK!!!!

Sounds like you need to get your code together. Work it out on paper first. write down an ouline of what you need to do in the program and then translate into C.

As for reading a file into a structure - clicky clicky.

thanks a lot for your help but
could you please explain me better what are the "size" and "nmemb" of freads?

so peple, right now I've already made the file to struct thing but it has a flaw.... it reads the file but when it printf's it in the screen it starts taking some letters of it..for example, the program starts, it gets the file to a struct, I ask it to printf the result in the screen and the output is like this:
To: [email protected]
rom:[email protected]
bject:blabla
blabla

.....

my leficheiro.c (file that reads the file to a struct) is like this:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "progmail.h"

void leficheiro(MAILR *ptr)
{
  FILE *fp;

fp = fopen("mail.txt","r");

 fgets(ptr->to,50,fp);
 fgets(ptr->from,50,fp);
 fgets(ptr->sub,50,fp);
 fgets(ptr->msg,50,fp);
 fclose(fp);

}

my command to present the result is comandoC.c:

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#define MAX 120

typedef struct mailr{
  char from[MAX+1];
  char to[MAX+1];
  char sub[MAX+1];
  char msg[MAX+1];
}MAILR;

void comandoC(MAILR *ptr){
  
      
    printf("%s\n",ptr->from);
    printf("%s\n",ptr->to);
    printf("%s\n",ptr->sub);
    printf("%s\n",ptr->msg);
    puts("");
    
  
}

and my main file, progmail.c :

Code:

#include <stdio.h>    /* para funcoes como printf, scanf, etc */
#include <stdlib.h>   /* para a funcao exit */ 
#include <string.h>   /* para funcoes relacionadas com strings */
#include "progmail.h"

int help(){
  
  printf ("Help \n \n");
  printf ("Mail Commands \n \n");
    
printf("------------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
  printf("|   t     <message list> type messages                                 |\n");
  printf("|   d     <message list> delete messages                               |\n");
  printf("|   R     <message list> reply to message senders                      |\n");
  printf("|   r     <message list> reply to message senders and all recipients   |\n");
  printf("|   m     <user list> mail to specific users                           |\n");
  printf("|   q          quit, saving unresolved messages in mbox                |\n");
  printf("|   x          quit, do not remove system mailbox                      |\n");
  printf("|   h          print out active message headers                        |\n");
  printf("------------------------------------------------------------------------\n");

  return 0;
}

int main (){
  char c,input[BUFSIZ];
  MAIL mailmessage;
  MAILR mailr;

  printf("E-mail program.\n");

  leficheiro(&mailr);  
  
  do{
  putchar ('&');
  fgets(input,BUFSIZ,stdin);
  c = input[0];
    
    switch (c)
      {
      case '?':help();break;
      case 't':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'd':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'R':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'r':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'm':comandom(&mailmessage);break;
      case 'q':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'x':printf("Program shutting down!\n"); break; 
      case 'h':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'C':comandoC(&mailr);break;
      case 'L':comandoL(&mailmessage);break;
      default: printf("Unknown command -> %s \n",input);break;
      } 

      }while (c!='x');
  
    return 0;
  }

...So can you tell me where's the problem, please?

Originally Posted by Sebastiani

post the entire program.

ok..so the entire program until now is this:

progmail.c :

Code:

#include <stdio.h>    /* para funcoes como printf, scanf, etc */
#include <stdlib.h>   /* para a funcao exit */ 
#include <string.h>   /* para funcoes relacionadas com strings */
#include "progmail.h"

int help(){
  
  printf ("Help \n \n");
  printf ("Mail Commands \n \n");
    
printf("------------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
  printf("|   t     <message list> type messages                                 |\n");
  printf("|   d     <message list> delete messages                               |\n");
  printf("|   R     <message list> reply to message senders                      |\n");
  printf("|   r     <message list> reply to message senders and all recipients   |\n");
  printf("|   m     <user list> mail to specific users                           |\n");
  printf("|   q          quit, saving unresolved messages in mbox                |\n");
  printf("|   x          quit, do not remove system mailbox                      |\n");
  printf("|   h          print out active message headers                        |\n");
  printf("------------------------------------------------------------------------\n");

  return 0;
}

int main (){
  char c,input[BUFSIZ];
  MAIL mailmessage;
  MAILR mailr;

  printf("E-mail program.\n");

  leficheiro(&mailr);  
  
  do{
  putchar ('&');
  fgets(input,BUFSIZ,stdin);
  c = input[0];
    
    switch (c)
      {
      case '?':help();break;
      case 't':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'd':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'R':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'r':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'm':comandom(&mailmessage);break;
      case 'q':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'x':printf("Program shutting down!\n"); break; 
      case 'h':printf("ok\n");break;
      case 'C':comandoC(&mailr);break;
      case 'L':comandoL(&mailmessage);break;
      default: printf("Unknown command -> %s \n",input);break;
      } 

      }while (c!='x');
  
    return 0;
  }

comandoC.c

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#define MAX 120

typedef struct mailr{
  char from[MAX+1];
  char to[MAX+1];
  char sub[MAX+1];
  char msg[MAX+1];
}MAILR;

void comandoC(MAILR *ptr){
  
      
    printf("%s\n",ptr->from);
    printf("%s\n",ptr->to);
    printf("%s\n",ptr->sub);
    printf("%s\n",ptr->msg);
    puts("");
    
  
}

comandoL.c

Code:

#include <stdio.h>    /* para funcoes como printf, scanf, etc */
#include <stdlib.h>   /* para a funcao exit */ 
#include <string.h>   /* para funcoes relacionadas com strings */
#include "progmail.h"

void comandoL(MAIL *ptr)
{
  printf("From:   %s\n",ptr->from);
  printf("To:     %s\n",ptr->to);
  printf("Subject:%s\n",ptr->sub);
  printf("Message:%s\n",ptr->msg);

}

comandom.c

Code:

#include <stdio.h>    /* para funcoes como printf, scanf, etc */
#include <stdlib.h>   /* para a funcao exit */ 
#include <string.h>   /* para funcoes relacionadas com strings */
#include "progmail.h"

void comandom(MAIL *ptr)
{
  FILE *fp;

  fp = fopen("mail.txt","a");

  printf("To:     \n"); fgets(ptr->to,sizeof ptr->to, stdin);
  fprintf(fp,"To:%s",ptr->to);

  printf("From:   \n"); fgets(ptr->from,sizeof ptr->from, stdin);
  fprintf(fp,"From: %s",ptr->from);

  printf("Subject:\n"); fgets(ptr->sub,sizeof ptr->sub, stdin);
  fprintf(fp,"Subject: %s",ptr->sub);  

  printf("Message:\n"); fgets(ptr->msg,sizeof ptr->msg, stdin);
  fprintf(fp,"%s",ptr->msg);

  fprintf(fp,"\n");
  fclose(fp);

    
}

leficheiro.c

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "progmail.h"

void leficheiro(MAILR *ptr)
{
  FILE *fp;

fp = fopen("mail.txt","r");

 fgets(ptr->to,50,fp);
 fgets(ptr->from,50,fp);
 fgets(ptr->sub,50,fp);
 fgets(ptr->msg,50,fp);
 fclose(fp);

}

mail.txt (example)

Code:

To:fdgd
From: geb
Subject: erg
regdfgdfgdfffsdg

To:dsgsdg
From: asdd
Subject: gfgd
fddfhgdfheshresh

ok, so what I am missing here is:
->to be able to insert the date and hour when each e-mail was written in the mail.txt...in comandom.c I need to be able to have the emails date too...

->Now I see that the mails can only be saved whern "q" is pressed.this is because the program has to work this way:
-you write the mails you want
-if you press "x" the mail.txt isn't modified and the program exits
-if you press "q" the mails are saved in "mail.txt" and the program exits

->I then need to be able to go to the struct that was made out of the file "mail.txt" and when "h" is pressed, to have this output on the screen:

Code:

& h        /* h being inserted*/
> N 1 <to> <date> <subject>
N 2 <to2> <date2> <subject2>
N 3 <to3> <date3> <subject3>

->Then I have to have a command that deletes mails from the "mail.txt", and works like this:
comandod.c

Code:

& d2
& h
> N 1 <endereço da mensagem1> <data1> <titulo da mensagem1>
N 3 <endereço da mensagem3> <data3> <titulo da mensagem3>
&

typing "d2", erases the second mail in "mail.txt"....

->the last comand that needs to be done is "t" that when typed like this for example "t2" gets an out put like this on the screen:

Code:

To: gfsddsf
From : sgd
Date:dfsgd
Subject:dfgfewq
Message:sdfgdsfg

that means it shows the mail in the screen..

and that is all...lol...see if you can help me in any of these tasks, please..time is running out


PS - comandoL and comandoC are only to test the comandom capacity to save the info into structs, and the leficheiro capacity to read the file to a struct, respectively(sp?)

Originally Posted by Sebastiani

>> ok..so the entire program until now is this:

I don't see progmail.h there.

sorry
progmail.h

Code:

#ifndef PROGMAIL_H_INCLUDED
#define PROGMAIL_H_INCLUDED
typedef struct mail
{
  char from[120];
  char to[120];
  char sub[120];
  char msg[120];
} MAIL;

typedef struct mailr
{
  char from[120];
  char to[120];
  char sub[120];
  char msg[120];
} MAILR;

void leficheiro(MAILR *m);
void comandom(MAIL *m);
void comandoC(MAIL *m);
void comandoL(MAIL *m);
#endif