I have a situation(*) where I have considered this approach. I understand the Q*.SMD file ok -- it is actually fairly simple. However, the D*.SMD file is a little more complicated. It seems to have header information in addition to the message. Is this required for the email to "go" or could I simply put the message contents in the file and let 'er rip?
Thanks,
John
* For those curious - our phone bill comes paper (900+ pages) and CD. Presently the Business Office photocopies the bills & separates them by departmental IDs and sends it out for verification. (Required by our auditors - got to love them auditors.) Huge wasted man-hours. I've played with some Vis.Basic to take the exported bill file, break it into divisional/office reports, and create, hopefully, appropriate Q & D files for emailing.
R. Scott Perry wrote:
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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