How to email a file using C, C++

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Dear Friends.

I am working on a project in C Language. I have a file students.txt in my D: Partition. This file is updated after each 12 hours. I want to e-mail this file after each update to a particular email address.
[Email address removed]

Please tell me that how can I do this?

Note: I am not talking about Visual C++ or C#.

Posted 3-Aug-10 20:22pm

rashidfarooq

Updated 3-Aug-10 20:31pm

Sandeep Mewara

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Sandeep Mewara 4-Aug-10 2:31am

Avoid providing any emails in your question unless you like SPAM.

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2010-08-03T21:37:00

Solution 2

On Windows you may use MAPI [^]. You may find a lot of articles about, here at CodeProject [^].
:)

Posted 3-Aug-10 21:37pm

CPallini

Aescleal · Answer 2 · 2010-08-03T23:26:00

It's fairly (compared with something tricky like HTTP) easy to write an SMTP client - it's a simple text based protocol so you can even experiment with it via telnet if you feel perverse enough.

I believe libcurl[^] also supports SMTP but I've not used it for anything but HTTP. That might help shield you from the problems of implementing an SMTP client yourself.

Cheers,

Ash

Christian Graus · Answer 3 · 2010-08-03T21:21:00

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I don't believe MFC has any support for email. I am certain that C has zero support for anything like that. You'll have to look for a library you can use, you'll probably need to pay for it.

Posted 3-Aug-10 21:21pm

Christian Graus

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rashidfarooq 4-Aug-10 3:32am

If it is possible with some libraries, then which are those libraries?

batsword · Answer 4 · 2010-08-04T14:57:00

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in mfc ,JMail ? SMTP ? Good use in many cases

Posted 4-Aug-10 14:57pm

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Yusuf · Answer 5 · 2010-08-04T17:36:00

You mentioned that the file gets updated after 12 hours. Well who updates the file? Does your application (C) has anything to do with the update? Do you get notified when the file gets updated?

You may want to think outside of your application. Is sending the email outside your application acceptable? If so, you can slap some windows scripts to send an email file. You can schedule to run the job every 12 hours. For that matter the job could check for something (say file update) before sending the email.