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Sending emails in C program for multiple machines on Linux/OSX

Hey guys, i am creating a tool that'll run a couple network test, generate a report then email the report. Now i a bit stuck with the email sending part... I tried at first a script which worked on some machines but then it'll work fine on some machine and act up on others... I can't really rely too much on MTA as they will be random machines and I have no ways to know what MTA is installed or even if they are configured.

Im not deep enough in C to program my own mail sending software that I could included in my program, I've checked a couple open source mail delivery agent out there but as i said i'm not deep enough in C yet to remaster only the "mail sending" sections of the codes

Any ideas or something that couple point me in the right direction??? I need something that will have very minimal dependencies on the machine's software because it'll be random customers that'll run the test... Telnet script seemed an easy option but its acting up alot.

Thanks in advance,

Jess

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rt-email-dashboards(8)					     Request Tracker Reference					    rt-email-dashboards(8)

NAME

       rt-email-dashboards - Send email dashboards

SYNOPSIS

	   rt-email-dashboards [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool will send users email based on how they have subscribed to dashboards. A dashboard is a set of saved searches, the subscription
       controls how often that dashboard is sent and how it's displayed.

       Each subscription has an hour, and possibly day of week or day of month. These are taken to be in the user's timezone if available, UTC
       otherwise.

SETUP

       You'll need to have cron run this script every hour. Here's an example crontab entry to do this.

	   0 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/rt4/local/sbin/rt-email-dashboards

       This will run the script every hour on the hour. This may need some further tweaking to be run as the correct user.

OPTIONS

       This tool supports a few options. Most are for debugging.

       -h
       --help  Display this documentation

       --dryrun
	       Figure out which dashboards would be sent, but don't actually generate or email any of them

       --time SECONDS
	       Instead of using the current time to figure out which dashboards should be sent, use SECONDS (usually since midnight Jan 1st, 1970,
	       so 1192216018 would be Oct 12 19:06:58 GMT 2007).

       --epoch SECONDS
	       Back-compat for --time SECONDS.

       --all   Ignore subscription frequency when considering each dashboard (should only be used with --dryrun for testing and debugging)

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