Command-line smtp client

[reeset]

I'm posting this because I thought someone might find this somewhat useful. Every month, I have to send email messages to about 500 list owners, notifying them of new members and what not. A while back, I wrote an object, wrapping the Winsock API, so that I could send messages via smtp through vbscript. However, the process is a little slow, and the code within the object, was somewhat of a hack. (Had to create a dummy window to capture messages, et) So I decided to re-write the smtp transmission into a stand-alone command oriented client. The application has no GUI, accepting information only through the command-line. It has worked fairly well for me, so I thought that I would share it with anyone that might find it useful. Documentation is very simple, but should be enough to get you going. BTW, the application is only 27 K, and uses no dependancies.

Take a look if you like. I have posted it on my website:
http://ucs.orst.edu/~reeset/html/other/other.html

[csammis]

The website was broken when I tried it today :(

But what you've written sounds really cool, I'd love to try it out :)

[reeset]

Sorry about the site being down. This was something that was really out of my control. Our university servers were schedule for a little bit of maintanence, so they will be down for a day or so. I should have paid more attention, but I can't imagine the server staying down any longer then the weekend. Since most professional and class pages reside on this machine, it usually isn't down long.

Again, I apologize. You can try it periodically, but I would expect that our IT will have it back up this weekend or the first of next week.

[csammis]

It was up and fine tonight, I downloaded your SMTP program, I'll play tomorrow when I'm awake ;)

[reeset]

Thanks csammis:
I got a chance to check my email last night, and seen that maintance would be finished, Sunday, so for those interested, by website will be unreliable between 8 am to 5 pm (July 8) PST.