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+/***************************************************************************
+ * _ _ ____ _
+ * Project ___| | | | _ \| |
+ * / __| | | | |_) | |
+ * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
+ * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ *
+ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+ * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+ *
+ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+/* <DESC>
+ * Send e-mail on behalf of another user with SMTP
+ * </DESC>
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+/*
+ * This is a simple example show how to send an email using libcurl's SMTP
+ * capabilities.
+ *
+ * Note that this example requires libcurl 7.66.0 or above.
+ */
+
+/* The libcurl options want plain addresses, the viewable headers in the mail
+ * can very well get a full name as well.
+ */
+#define FROM_ADDR "<ursel@example.org>"
+#define SENDER_ADDR "<kurt@example.org>"
+#define TO_ADDR "<addressee@example.net>"
+
+#define FROM_MAIL "Ursel " FROM_ADDR
+#define SENDER_MAIL "Kurt " SENDER_ADDR
+#define TO_MAIL "A Receiver " TO_ADDR
+
+static const char *payload_text[] = {
+ "Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:54:29 +1100\r\n",
+ "To: " TO_MAIL "\r\n",
+ "From: " FROM_MAIL "\r\n",
+ "Sender: " SENDER_MAIL "\r\n",
+ "Message-ID: <dcd7cb36-11db-487a-9f3a-e652a9458efd@"
+ "rfcpedant.example.org>\r\n",
+ "Subject: SMTP example message\r\n",
+ "\r\n", /* empty line to divide headers from body, see RFC5322 */
+ "The body of the message starts here.\r\n",
+ "\r\n",
+ "It could be a lot of lines, could be MIME encoded, whatever.\r\n",
+ "Check RFC5322.\r\n",
+ NULL
+};
+
+struct upload_status {
+ int lines_read;
+};
+
+static size_t payload_source(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
+{
+ struct upload_status *upload_ctx = (struct upload_status *)userp;
+ const char *data;
+
+ if((size == 0) || (nmemb == 0) || ((size*nmemb) < 1)) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ data = payload_text[upload_ctx->lines_read];
+
+ if(data) {
+ size_t len = strlen(data);
+ memcpy(ptr, data, len);
+ upload_ctx->lines_read++;
+
+ return len;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ CURL *curl;
+ CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
+ struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
+ struct upload_status upload_ctx;
+
+ upload_ctx.lines_read = 0;
+
+ curl = curl_easy_init();
+ if(curl) {
+ /* This is the URL for your mailserver. In this example we connect to the
+ smtp-submission port as we require an authenticated connection. */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com:587");
+
+ /* Set the username and password */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERNAME, "kurt");
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PASSWORD, "xipj3plmq");
+
+ /* Set the authorisation identity (identity to act as) */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID, "ursel");
+
+ /* Force PLAIN authentication */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, "AUTH=PLAIN");
+
+ /* Note that this option isn't strictly required, omitting it will result
+ * in libcurl sending the MAIL FROM command with empty sender data. All
+ * autoresponses should have an empty reverse-path, and should be directed
+ * to the address in the reverse-path which triggered them. Otherwise,
+ * they could cause an endless loop. See RFC 5321 Section 4.5.5 for more
+ * details.
+ */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM, FROM_ADDR);
+
+ /* Add a recipient, in this particular case it corresponds to the
+ * To: addressee in the header. */
+ recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, TO_ADDR);
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);
+
+ /* We're using a callback function to specify the payload (the headers and
+ * body of the message). You could just use the CURLOPT_READDATA option to
+ * specify a FILE pointer to read from. */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, payload_source);
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &upload_ctx);
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
+
+ /* Send the message */
+ res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+ /* Check for errors */
+ if(res != CURLE_OK)
+ fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
+ curl_easy_strerror(res));
+
+ /* Free the list of recipients */
+ curl_slist_free_all(recipients);
+
+ /* curl won't send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you should
+ * be able to re-use this connection for additional messages (setting
+ * CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM and CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT as required, and calling
+ * curl_easy_perform() again. It may not be a good idea to keep the
+ * connection open for a very long time though (more than a few minutes
+ * may result in the server timing out the connection), and you do want to
+ * clean up in the end.
+ */
+ curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+ }
+
+ return (int)res;
+}