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12-25-2011
Matt Hintzke

Email program

I am a fairly new socket programmer, yet I understand the concept on how to do it. I am not sure what kind of network programming I should focus mostly on, so I guess my first question is should I program for Linux or windows if I am just starting out. Then my real question is how I can go about creating a program that can send a line of text as an email to a host ([email protected])? Any links to guides or other tuts would be great. Even just example code would help me figure it out. thanks!
12-25-2011
memcpy

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Originally Posted by Matt Hintzke

Then my real question is how I can go about creating a program that can send a line of text as an email to a host ([email protected])? Any links to guides or other tuts would be great. Even just example code would help me figure it out. thanks!

If you're really interested in sending mail.. (it's not the easiest thing to do):

smtp protocol c - Google Search

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Originally Posted by Matt Hintzke

my first question is should I program for Linux or windows if I am just starting out.

If you have a linux box available, use it. If you don't, make one. You can do so much more code-wise than windows or even Mac, and you don't have to deal with Windows' constant bugs and broken trashy APIs that microsoft restricts (raw sockets??!).
12-25-2011
CommonTater

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Originally Posted by memcpy

If you have a linux box available, use it. If you don't, make one. You can do so much more code-wise than windows or even Mac, and you don't have to deal with Windows' constant bugs and broken trashy APIs that microsoft restricts (raw sockets??!).

What a load of fanboi crap that is.

Do you really thing Windows and OS-X would last a week if they went about making it impossible to do stuff?

Get a clue.
12-25-2011
memcpy

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Originally Posted by CommonTater

What a load of fanboi crap that is.

Do you really thing Windows and OS-X would last a week if they went about making it impossible to do stuff?

Get a clue.

You obviously didn't read. I never said I had anything against OSX (I'm actually using a Mac right now and its perfectly fine), and I already explained why I don't like windows. If you don't believe me, why not try remembering all of the security holes, exploits, unfixed bugs, and other issues with Windows that have been floating around the internet.
12-26-2011
andrew89

Out of the top 1,000,000 servers--as of August 2011 anyway--63.9% was some flavor of nix the remaining were M$. Another survey conducted in '09 on 38,549,333 publicly accessible servers found that over 60% were based on Linux--not including BSD or Unix.

Just going by the figures there, some nix distro would be preferred.

Source

Edit: I would also like to say Tater is rather opinionated. I like that in a woman :P but not as much in my taters lol.
12-26-2011
manasij7479

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Originally Posted by andrew89

..... opinionated ....

Didn't you now that you have to be a fanboy to choose anything other than Windows ?
12-26-2011
spaghetticode

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Originally Posted by manasij7479

Didn't you now that you have to be a fanboy to choose anything other than Windows ?

While generally agreeing with you, memcpy and the other linux users, let's be fair here: That's neither what Tater said, nor what he meant.
12-26-2011
andrew89

Actually, as far as server stats go, we're 'mainstream' lol. I wasn't trying to start anything, I'm just hoping OP can figure it out. I've never written a mailer before. Well, I have, but that was in PHP. I might peruse the source code a little and see if I can understand any of it, which isn't likely... but possible.