Subject: From: Date:

Re: [ECS] New chapter on POSTIE (GREAT little pgm !) Ingo Dean Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:38:01 -0500

---

And don't forget you can also use it to check your POP3 mail account and then make
announcements if you have mail.

Mark Gilmore wrote:

> <pre>   <A NAME="SENDING EMAIL"></a><B>Sending Email (with "POSTIE")</b>
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------
>         "POSTIE" is a free program which may be used by ECS to send/
>         receive email (WITHOUT running your web browser). It may be
>         downloaded at <a
> name="www.infradig.com/ipostie.htmlhttp://www.infradig.com/ipostie.html">www.infradig.com/ipostie.html</a>.
>
>         In general, the command to send a message is as follows, but more
>         options are supported (see the POSTIE README.TXT for details):
>
>                 POSTIE -s:{subject} -file:{file} -host:{server}
>                         -to:{receiver} -from:{sender}
>
>         where:
>                 {subject}  is the subject of the message
>                 {file}     is the text file to send as the message
>                 {server}   is the outgoing email server
>                            (refer to your web browser setup)
>                 {receiver} is the destination address
>                 {sender}   is the return address
>
>         In the example:
>                 POSTIE -s:test -file:x.txt -host:smtp.x.net
>                         -to:mark@net -from:me@net
>         The subject is "test", the message file is "x.txt", the host
>         is "smtp.x.net", the destination address if "mark@net", and
>         the return address if "me@net".
> --
> Mark Gilmore
> Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
> omnip@usit.net
> http://www.usit.com/omnip

--
----
Work: mailto:Ingo_Dean@MentorG.com  Personal: mailto:idean@iname.com
      http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2948/

---