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MailSend : A Shareware command-line Internet mailer for Window 95 and NT
Version 1.03
Copyright (c) 1997 by James K. Lawless
Email: jimbo@radiks.net
Web: http://www.radiks.net/jimbo
Table of Contents
1) What is MailSend?
2) How does one use MailSend?
3) Can MailSend be used to send mail to multiple people?
4) Registering ( paying for use of ) MailSend
5) Disclaimer
6) Help! What to do if you encounter problems.
7) Technical Specifications
8) Distribution
1) What is MailSend?
MailSend is a utility that allows one to send Internet e-mail from
the Win95 or NT command-line. This includes the ability to send
Internet e-mail from batch files.
2) How does one use MailSend?
The MailSend command-line is as follows:
MailSend file smtp-server to from
Where:
"file" is the text-file that you desire to send
"smtp-server" is the name or IP address of the SMTP server
that you need to use to send e-mail ( ask your Internet provider
for this address or name ).
"to" is the e-mail address for the recipient of the e-mail.
"from" is the e-mail address for the sender ( that's usually you!)
Let's say, for instance, that you want to send file MAGAZINE.TXT to
user snorky@wubble.kom and you are fred@gronk.kom and your SMTP
address is simply named gronk.kom, the MailSend command-line would
look like this:
MailSend MAGAZINE.TXT gronk.kom snorky@wubble.kom fred@gronk.com
MailSend will display a running status of it's session with your
SMTP server. For the above example, the messages would look something
like the following:
MailSend v1.03 attempting connection to radiks.net
Connection successful.
*** 250 gronk.kom Hello dial24.gronk.kom [0.0.0.0],
pleased to meet you
*** 250 <fred@gronk.kom>... Sender ok
*** 250 <snorky@wubble.kom>... Recipient ok
*** 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
Send complete!
The messages are typical responses from an SMTP server. If
MailSend encounters response codes that differ from the above,
it will abort the MailSend operation ( and will exit with a
return code of 1 ).
3) Can MailSend be used to send mail to multiple people?
While MailSend can only be used to send one e-mail at a time,
it's fairly easy to concoct a batch file to send mail to
multiple people.
Suppose that you wanted to create a batch file that would
always send a specified file to several members of a group
or mailing list. The batch file might look something like the
following ( we'll call it SEND.BAT):
MailSend %1 gronk.kom snorky@wubble.kom fred@gronk.com
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto abort
MailSend %1 gronk.kom wudzo@warble.kom fred@gronk.com
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto abort
MailSend %1 gronk.kom freen@aragones.kom fred@gronk.com
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto abort
echo Mail sent!
goto end
:abort
echo Errors! Process aborted
:end
Then one would simply have to invoke SEND.BAT to send MAGAZINE.TXT
to the above people via the following command-line:
SEND MAGAZINE.TXT
4) Registering ( paying for use of ) MailSend
MailSend is shareware. It is not free. You may use it for a trial
period of 30 days. If you continue to use it after 30 days or if you
use it for any purposes other than purely experimental use, you are
required to register the software.
The registration fee for the software is $10.00 in U.S. funds for
each copy that has a potential to be used ( i.e. if you have 5
people in your company and 4 of them may need to use MailSend, you
are required to pay 4 registration fees ).
Please remit payment by check ( drawn on a U.S. Bank ) to:
James K. Lawless
2414 4th Avenue
Council Bluffs, IA 51501
If you live outside of the U.S., please contact me via e-mail at
jimbo@radiks.net to work out details.
5) Disclaimer
I claim no responsibility nor liability for damages incurred to
hardware / software during usage of MailSend. Nor am I responsible
for any monetary losses related to use of MailSend. Use MailSend
at your own risk.
6) Help! What to do if you encounter problems.
If you encounter problems using MailSend, please report the
problem to me via e-mail. It would be most helpful if you could
capture the output of MailSend into a file as follows ( the
following is just an example, you'll need to supply your own
e-mail addresses and such ).
MailSend MAG.TXT gronk.kom s@w.kom fred@gronk.com > ERR.TXT
The "> ERR.TXT" at the end of the command will route the output
into a file called ERR.TXT. If you could e-mail me this file
along with a description of your problem it would make it easier
for me to try and fix the problem.
7) Technical Specifications
MailSend was written in a variant of the AWK programming language
called TAWK ( Thompson Automation AWK ) for Win95/NT.
It addresses an SMTP server by issuing a connection to port 25
of the specified SMTP server, first issuing a HELO, followed by
a MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, DATA, ., and closes with a QUIT.
Response 250 is anticipated from MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO:. Response
354 is expected from DATA.
No other responses are checked after the "." is issued.
8) Distribution
You may not resell MailSend, but you may include it on media
such as CD-ROM shareware collections. You may also upload it
to any BBS or place it on any FTP site or Web page.