Chapter 14. Working with Email
Email is everywhere these days and is so simple, it can be used for many tasks beyond personal communications. It is not uncommon to find a program that sends an email to an administrator when it encounters some critical situation. Forms on the Web often run a simple CGI script that send the details to a specific email address. Once the volume of these emails increase, an automated script may process the mailbox and further process the messages according to some criteria based on the email contents.
For these and many other reasons, it is not a surprise to find that working with email is a common task, particularly for scripting languages. There are many email systems in use, including SMTP/POP3 facilities, Microsoft Exchange Server, and IBM’s Domino (previously known as Lotus Notes) among others.
In this chapter, we look at some common techniques for working with email on Windows. For each technology, we develop short examples that send an email and then attempt to get that same mail back.
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