The reason I am doing this is because I need to create an e-mail with inline
images from a website. The user on the website can create a HTML message,
and it then has to be sent via Coldfusion. I already have a script that puts
together the file, but the header and the body are both in the same file.

And I can't seem to find any sample files to see what the format should look
like. There aren't any in the spool dir, even when I sent myself a mail...

Any thoughts?

Erik-Jan

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens R. Scott Perry
Verzonden: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 16:07 PM
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Onderwerp: Re: [IMail Forum] Create your own SMTP messages



>Does anyone know if it is possible to create your own (rfc 822 compliant)
>smtp messages

That is both easy and hard.  It's very easy to do if you know how (the fact
that you know about RFC822 is very good); it's nearly impossible if you
don't know how (thousands upon thousand of companies have had programmers
write scripts to send mail rather than use a real mail client, and failed
miserably -- so bad, in fact, that they have caused the amount of spam
people receive to increase).

It is not recommended to create your own SMTP E-mail, unless you are
willing to take the time to learn exactly how to do it.

>and put them in the Spool dir of Imail. When I try it, it does
>not get sent. What fileextension is needed?

Many (all?) file extensions will work.  However, the files in the IMail
spool directory are in a proprietary file format -- so you have to rely on
luck as well as skill to make sure that it works properly.  If you *must*
do it, you need to have both a Q*.SMD and D*.SMD file, where the D*.SMD
file has the actual E-mail and the Q*.SMD file has the recipient
information (you'll need to analyze some Q*.SMD files to figure out how it
is formatted).

Most likely, sending the mail with a real mail client would be better,
however.  Is there something specific that writing your own would be able
to accomplish that might not be possible with a regular mail client?

                                                    -Scott
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