Subj : Re: Use functions To : comp.programming From : goose Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 08:52 pm Rob Thorpe wrote: > futureofai@gmail.com wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I need to send an email and receive an email using my program. My >>program is in COBOL and as you know it has no features to access mail >>servers and so on. I can write to a file and read input from a file. Is >>there any way I can achieve this? > > > The most obvious thing to do is write the information to a file then > call another program to email in. > > If you're using *nix you can send it to /usr/sbin/sendmail > > If you're using Windows you can install an SMTP server and send it to > that. > If you are using windows, google for a program called "blatt" good luck .