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25/* <DESC>
26 * Send SMTP mime emails
27 * </DESC>
28 */
29
30#include <stdio.h>
31#include <string.h>
32#include <curl/curl.h>
33
34/* This is a simple example showing how to send mime mail using libcurl's SMTP
35 * capabilities. For an example of using the multi interface please see
36 * smtp-multi.c.
37 *
38 * Note that this example requires libcurl 7.56.0 or above.
39 */
40
41#define FROM    "<sender@example.org>"
42#define TO      "<addressee@example.net>"
43#define CC      "<info@example.org>"
44
45static const char *headers_text[] = {
46  "Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:08:43 +0100",
47  "To: " TO,
48  "From: " FROM " (Example User)",
49  "Cc: " CC " (Another example User)",
50  "Message-ID: <dcd7cb36-11db-487a-9f3a-e652a9458efd@"
51    "rfcpedant.example.org>",
52  "Subject: example sending a MIME-formatted message",
53  NULL
54};
55
56static const char inline_text[] =
57  "This is the inline text message of the email.\r\n"
58  "\r\n"
59  "  It could be a lot of lines that would be displayed in an email\r\n"
60  "viewer that is not able to handle HTML.\r\n";
61
62static const char inline_html[] =
63  "<html><body>\r\n"
64  "<p>This is the inline <b>HTML</b> message of the email.</p>"
65  "<br />\r\n"
66  "<p>It could be a lot of HTML data that would be displayed by "
67  "email viewers able to handle HTML.</p>"
68  "</body></html>\r\n";
69
70
71int main(void)
72{
73  CURL *curl;
74  CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
75
76  curl = curl_easy_init();
77  if(curl) {
78    struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
79    struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
80    struct curl_slist *slist = NULL;
81    curl_mime *mime;
82    curl_mime *alt;
83    curl_mimepart *part;
84    const char **cpp;
85
86    /* This is the URL for your mailserver */
87    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com");
88
89    /* Note that this option is not strictly required, omitting it will result
90     * in libcurl sending the MAIL FROM command with empty sender data. All
91     * autoresponses should have an empty reverse-path, and should be directed
92     * to the address in the reverse-path which triggered them. Otherwise,
93     * they could cause an endless loop. See RFC 5321 Section 4.5.5 for more
94     * details.
95     */
96    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM, FROM);
97
98    /* Add two recipients, in this particular case they correspond to the
99     * To: and Cc: addressees in the header, but they could be any kind of
100     * recipient. */
101    recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, TO);
102    recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, CC);
103    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);
104
105    /* allow one of the recipients to fail and still consider it okay */
106    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT_ALLOWFAILS, 1L);
107
108    /* Build and set the message header list. */
109    for(cpp = headers_text; *cpp; cpp++)
110      headers = curl_slist_append(headers, *cpp);
111    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
112
113    /* Build the mime message. */
114    mime = curl_mime_init(curl);
115
116    /* The inline part is an alternative proposing the html and the text
117       versions of the email. */
118    alt = curl_mime_init(curl);
119
120    /* HTML message. */
121    part = curl_mime_addpart(alt);
122    curl_mime_data(part, inline_html, CURL_ZERO_TERMINATED);
123    curl_mime_type(part, "text/html");
124
125    /* Text message. */
126    part = curl_mime_addpart(alt);
127    curl_mime_data(part, inline_text, CURL_ZERO_TERMINATED);
128
129    /* Create the inline part. */
130    part = curl_mime_addpart(mime);
131    curl_mime_subparts(part, alt);
132    curl_mime_type(part, "multipart/alternative");
133    slist = curl_slist_append(NULL, "Content-Disposition: inline");
134    curl_mime_headers(part, slist, 1);
135
136    /* Add the current source program as an attachment. */
137    part = curl_mime_addpart(mime);
138    curl_mime_filedata(part, "smtp-mime.c");
139    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MIMEPOST, mime);
140
141    /* Send the message */
142    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
143
144    /* Check for errors */
145    if(res != CURLE_OK)
146      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
147              curl_easy_strerror(res));
148
149    /* Free lists. */
150    curl_slist_free_all(recipients);
151    curl_slist_free_all(headers);
152
153    /* curl will not send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you
154     * should be able to reuse this connection for additional messages
155     * (setting CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM and CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT as required, and
156     * calling curl_easy_perform() again. It may not be a good idea to keep
157     * the connection open for a long time though (more than a few minutes may
158     * result in the server timing out the connection), and you do want to
159     * clean up in the end.
160     */
161    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
162
163    /* Free multipart message. */
164    curl_mime_free(mime);
165  }
166
167  return (int)res;
168}
169