command line mailer

[Darin McBride]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:04:57 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Monday, September 13, 1999, 4:02:50 PM, Darin wrote:
>> Perl.
>
>> At least that's what I use on OS/2...
>
>    Well, that would be a second choice, if there was a local MTA.  I dunno
>about you, but I'd just rather not get into the whole sockets programming.  ;)

Bah.  I use Perl 5, with the Net::SMTP package.  No sockets programming
knowledge necessary - I'm proof of that!  :->  I have two scripts doing
this now.  One is a CGI script, the other is a filter exit in PMMail
(phew - on topic!).

Except that PMMail *insists* that whatever it runs is REXX.  So I have
PMMail run MyWrapper.cmd which runs "perl MyProgram.pl" (with the
message file as a parameter).  MyProgram then replies to the given
message automatically.  (This is how I get BMTMicro's registration
message to give anyone registering RXSem their key within about 15
minutes - the time between polls.  I really wish there was a
full-fledged REXX interface to PMMail and PMINews...)