With a basic understanding of both SMTP and the email format, we are ready to program a simple email client. Our client takes as inputs: the destination email server, the recipient's address, the sender's address, the email subject line, and the email body text.
Our program begins by including the necessary headers with the following statements:
/*smtp_send.c*/
#include "chap08.h"
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
We also define the following two constants to make buffer allocation and checking easier:
/*smtp_send.c continued*/
#define MAXINPUT 512
#define MAXRESPONSE 1024
Our program needs to prompt the user for input several times. This is required to get the email server's hostname, the recipient's address, and so on. C provides the gets() function for this purpose but gets() is deprecated in the latest...
