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24
25/* <DESC>
26 * Send email with SMTP
27 * </DESC>
28 */
29
30#include <stdio.h>
31#include <string.h>
32#include <curl/curl.h>
33
34/*
35 * For an SMTP example using the multi interface please see smtp-multi.c.
36 */
37
38/* The libcurl options want plain addresses, the viewable headers in the mail
39 * can get a full name as well.
40 */
41#define FROM_ADDR    "<sender@example.org>"
42#define TO_ADDR      "<addressee@example.net>"
43#define CC_ADDR      "<info@example.org>"
44
45#define FROM_MAIL "Sender Person " FROM_ADDR
46#define TO_MAIL   "A Receiver " TO_ADDR
47#define CC_MAIL   "John CC Smith " CC_ADDR
48
49static const char *payload_text =
50  "Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:54:29 +1100\r\n"
51  "To: " TO_MAIL "\r\n"
52  "From: " FROM_MAIL "\r\n"
53  "Cc: " CC_MAIL "\r\n"
54  "Message-ID: <dcd7cb36-11db-487a-9f3a-e652a9458efd@"
55  "rfcpedant.example.org>\r\n"
56  "Subject: SMTP example message\r\n"
57  "\r\n" /* empty line to divide headers from body, see RFC 5322 */
58  "The body of the message starts here.\r\n"
59  "\r\n"
60  "It could be a lot of lines, could be MIME encoded, whatever.\r\n"
61  "Check RFC 5322.\r\n";
62
63struct upload_status {
64  size_t bytes_read;
65};
66
67static size_t payload_source(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
68{
69  struct upload_status *upload_ctx = (struct upload_status *)userp;
70  const char *data;
71  size_t room = size * nmemb;
72
73  if((size == 0) || (nmemb == 0) || ((size*nmemb) < 1)) {
74    return 0;
75  }
76
77  data = &payload_text[upload_ctx->bytes_read];
78
79  if(data) {
80    size_t len = strlen(data);
81    if(room < len)
82      len = room;
83    memcpy(ptr, data, len);
84    upload_ctx->bytes_read += len;
85
86    return len;
87  }
88
89  return 0;
90}
91
92int main(void)
93{
94  CURL *curl;
95  CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
96  struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
97  struct upload_status upload_ctx = { 0 };
98
99  curl = curl_easy_init();
100  if(curl) {
101    /* This is the URL for your mailserver */
102    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com");
103
104    /* Note that this option is not strictly required, omitting it will result
105     * in libcurl sending the MAIL FROM command with empty sender data. All
106     * autoresponses should have an empty reverse-path, and should be directed
107     * to the address in the reverse-path which triggered them. Otherwise,
108     * they could cause an endless loop. See RFC 5321 Section 4.5.5 for more
109     * details.
110     */
111    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM, FROM_ADDR);
112
113    /* Add two recipients, in this particular case they correspond to the
114     * To: and Cc: addressees in the header, but they could be any kind of
115     * recipient. */
116    recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, TO_ADDR);
117    recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, CC_ADDR);
118    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);
119
120    /* We are using a callback function to specify the payload (the headers and
121     * body of the message). You could just use the CURLOPT_READDATA option to
122     * specify a FILE pointer to read from. */
123    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, payload_source);
124    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &upload_ctx);
125    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
126
127    /* Send the message */
128    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
129
130    /* Check for errors */
131    if(res != CURLE_OK)
132      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
133              curl_easy_strerror(res));
134
135    /* Free the list of recipients */
136    curl_slist_free_all(recipients);
137
138    /* curl will not send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you
139     * should be able to reuse this connection for additional messages
140     * (setting CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM and CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT as required, and
141     * calling curl_easy_perform() again. It may not be a good idea to keep
142     * the connection open for a long time though (more than a few minutes may
143     * result in the server timing out the connection), and you do want to
144     * clean up in the end.
145     */
146    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
147  }
148
149  return (int)res;
150}
151