wMailTo

The Win32/DOS program for automated email/usenet postings!

What is wMailTo ? History Copyright and contributor information: Lisence agreement Use Some examples Download

What is wMailTo ?

wMailTo (TM) is a handy 32 bit DOS program used to send email and news postings directly from the command line. It can be used interactively, or you can call it from other programs, DOS .bat files or Pearl scripts.

Unlike many other email utilities, this is written in C++, and does not require VBRUN or any other crap in order to run. It is also extreemly fast.

wMailto will rarely be used as an interactive mail program. The features is therefore designed to meet the neds of automated processing. Most options can be configured with command line arguments, and the body of a text message can be read from standard input (piped) or a file.
One feature that has been requested from many people are binary attachments. wMailTo handles this by encoding the output to a standard MIME multipart message.
Features

• SMTP (email) sender
• NNTP (news) poster
• Multiple receivers of emails, grouped as "to", "cc" and "bcc". "Bcc" (blind carbon copy) receivers will not be listed in the message header and is therefore conveniant for mass-mailing of newsletters and information.
• Support for crossposting to several newsgroups when used as a news poster.
• Feature to insert one or several text files to the message body.
• Feature to include one or several binary/text files as binary attachments (using MIME 1.0 multipart/base64 encoding). The encoded message format is the current "standard" and can be read by all modern mail readers.
• Feature to turn off MIME encoding to handle old mail systems or special tasks.
• Feature to convert DOS codepage (european) character sets to the Windows OEM charset. This allows you to use national caharcters in a DOS window, and have these converted to the Windows chracter set by the program. This feature is very conveniant if you need to send the output from some DOS program throug email.
• Easy to configure SMTP host and personal information - have some fun with your buddies by sending them a letter from the president or something similar (note - this actually is illegal, so you should only do this with people you know well, and _be there_ when they get the mail).
• Full source code in c++ is included

History

wMailTo is derived from the source code of another popular mailing program, wSendmail v 1.6. In fact, wMailTo is a replacement of wSendmail.

Note: wMailTo does not have any GCI-BIN capabilities like wSendmail does. If you want to use wMailTo to send web forms, you will need to use a front-end program (normally a Pearl script).

Copyright and contributor information:

wMailTo is Copyright 1997 by Jarle Aase. All rights reserved.

Idea and original implementation: Jarle Aase, Jgaa's Internet
MIME code taken from Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)
Arpadate taken from Eric P. Allman, University of California.

Other contributors (to wSendmail - the original code for this program)
Wsendmail: Jarle Aase, Jgaa's Internet
Multi-reciptients code: M. Spoek
News posting modification: Wim van der Vegt
Bugfixes: Steve Russo, Digital Equipment Corp.

Lisence agreement

wMailTo is built on the c++ library MailUtil, which has the following lisence acreement.

1. This code might be freely used commercially and non-commercially under the following restrictions:
2. No use is allowed by any governmental agencies or organizations in any country. This includes commercial companys 100% owned by the government. Universities and schools might use the code and library as they wish.
3. THIS CODE IS NOT TO BE USED BY ANYONE IN ORDER TO GENERATE COMMERCIAL OR NON-COMMERCIAL SPAM-MAIL, OR SPAM POSTINGS ON USENET.
4. These terms applies for the code and library, and programs compiled from this code and code derived from this code and library.

   

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   Use

   Before you can use wMailTo, you need to 'initialize' the progam. This is done by calling
   

     wMailTo -init
   

   and answer the questions asked.

   wMailTo has the following command line options:
   

   
   Usage: wmailto [options] {to[,to] [to] | @addr_list_file}
   Usage: wmailto -- [options] {to[,to] [to] | @addr_list_file} < message
   Usage: wmailto -init  Install wmailto
   Options:
     -.      will end a piped message when a line contains a single dot.
     --      read text from standard input (console or pipe)
     -d      turn on debug mode
     -sSubject  adds a subject to the message
     -v      turn on verbose (interactive) mode
     -p      pause after the message is sent
     -h      show this help
     -iFile  include a binary attachment
     -tFile  include a textfile in the message body
     -a      convert OEM (european DOS codepages) charset to ANSI
     -Pn     sets priority (where n is 1 = highest, 3 = normal, 5 = lowest)
     -u      post to usenet (news). Receiver is newsgroup.
     -cAddress Cc to Address.
     -c@FileName Cc to Addressees defined in file FileName
     -bAddress Bcc to Address.
     -b@FileName Bcc to Addressees defined in file FileName
     -oOrganization.
   

   
   

   

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   Some examples

   To send a simple email message, just type

   wMailto

   at the DOS prompt.

   C:\>wMailTo -v
   wMailTo wMailTo v.1.0 Copyright 1997 by Jarle Aase
           Get a free copy from http://www.jgaa.com
   
   Going interactive - no receivers are specified.
   To: jgaa@jgaa.com
   To (Add one more or leave blank):
   Cc:
   Bcc:
   Subject: Just testing
   Enter message text. End with ^Z
   Hi Jarle.
   
   This is a test message.
   Bye.
   ^Z
   Email successfully sent
   C:\>
   

   To send the output from a program:

   C:\>dir | wmailto -- jgaa@jgaa.com "-sDir Ouput"
   

   To send a text file as the message body:

   C:\>wmailto -tc:\temp\somefile.txt jgaa@jgaa.com "-sA text file"
   

   To send the output from a program, along with a binary attachment:

   C:\>dir | wmailto -- jgaa@jgaa.com "-sDir Ouput" -ic:\temp\icon.gif 
   

   To send the output from a program, along with two binary attachments:

   C:\>dir | wmailto -- jgaa@jgaa.com "-sDir Ouput" -ic:\temp\icon.gif -id:\something.zip
   

   To send the output from a program, along with two binary attachments, anf bcc (blind carbon copy - useful for mailing lists when you don't want the name to all reciptients to appear in the message):

   C:\>dir | wmailto -- jgaa@jgaa.com "-sDir Ouput" -ic:\temp\icon.gif -id:\something.zip -b@mail_list_file.txt 
   

   To send a usenet posting:

   C:\>wmailto -u -v
   wMailTo wMailTo v.1.0 Copyright 1997 by Jarle Aase
           Get a free copy from http://www.jgaa.com
   
   Going interactive - no receivers are specified.
   Newsgroup: alt.test
   Newsgroup (Add one more or leave blank):
   Subject: Test ignore
   Enter message text. End with ^Z
   This is just a test
   
   Jarle
   ^Z
   wmailto: Message was successfully posted.
   C:\>
   

   

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