Am I correct in assuming/guessing that there is no native e-mail function within C?
My work has its own win mail server. Can a C program be used to make use of that existing mail server e.g. send the message to the server and let the server take care of the sending?
Does anyone know of any code or place where I begin this task?
Yes you are correct in assuming that, it has no place in standard C.
The easiest way is to probably use use a SMTP library, or a library that supports whatever mail protocol your server is running.
I know of no such libraries off the top of my head, so you'll need to search around.
Further searching google threw up an smtp.h.
Is anyone familiar with this include file?
Is it a standard C implementation?
Well without posting your smtp.h file, it would be impossible to know if anyone has seen it before.
C doesn't know how to do anything useful other than read/write to files, stdin, stdout, stderr... To do anything beyond that, you'll need to use OS API functions (or a library that does it for you). So in that respect, smtp.h couldn't possibly use only standard C functions to send E-mail.
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You read Beej to figure out the basics of network programming.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming
You read RFC 821 to figure out the basics of talking "SMTP" to an email server
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt
Open a port, send some commands, get some replies, job done.
Or find a library (for your unstated OS/Compiler) which does some of the work for you.
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