Updated 2018-05-03 17:08:18 by SEH

Mail is one of the killer apps for the internet (along with the WWW of course).

On this page, I hope to accumulate pointers to various related programs, extensions, wiki pages, etc. relating to dealing with mail from Tcl.

Here are some other mail-related links in the Wiki:


"EMail Package for TCL" [1] (are the error diagnostics with this primitive?)

"Sendmail"

"mail example" [2] (404)

"mail forwarding example" [3] (404)

'OTOH this works fine:
  % exec cmd /c start "" mailto:xxx@something.yyy?subject=abc^&body=bbb

' [give ref]

MG It looks like this is an MS Windows-only way to launch your default email client, rather than to actually send the mail via Tcl. cmd /c start (or, for more portability, [auto_execok start]) <cmd> is basically the same as typing <cmd> into the Start->Run dialog box - which can launch programs, directories, or pretty much any hyperlink/web protocol that Internet Explorer can handle (mailto:, telnet://, ftp://, etc).


Alpine is a community-supported continuation of the venerable Pine email messaging system. One of its features is Web Alpine, a complete cgi-driven web browser client. The cgi code that manages the client interface, does session management and interacts with the server-side Alpine program is written in Tcl with the help of cgi.tcl

See [6]