Windows 2000 CLI Email Clients?

Posted by Cliff on Friday October 26, 2001 @10:50AM from the CLI-programs-in-a-GUI-world dept.

man_ls asks: "I am running a TELNET server for myself and some friends out of my house using Windows 2000 Telnet Services, and would like to provide them with the ability to send and receive e-mails through the command line. I'm currently using fmail unregistered, which has send-only ability, and tried PC-PINE but it wouldn't run on the command line. Does anyone know of a command line mail program that will run under Windows 2000, and can both send and receive e-mail messages?" And we all know how popular usable Such a program would be a cool thing indeed! Are there such beasts, or has the rather un-popularity of CLI apps under Win32 rendered such things obsolete?

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Couple of solutions... by 3waygeek · 2001-10-26 11:57 · Score: 2, Informative

If you're running IIS5's SMTP server, you can use CDO for Win2K from JScript or VBScript to send messages. CDO is a set of COM objects that wrap around MIME-compliant messages, so you can build or parse email messages.

If you don't have IIS SMTP, there are a number of SMTP client COM objects around; you can then write a JScript/VBScript/VB/C++ app that drives the COM object.

You also might want to look into something called blat -- it's another SMTP client implementation (not COM-based, IIRC).