How to send Email through a C++ program?

Question

How can I send an email from C++? Is there a good cross-platform (MS Windows, Linux etc) library that I can use? I'm using GCC (cygwin on MS Windows).

Answer 1

Check out jwSMTP - a cross-platform SMTP class.

http://johnwiggins.net/jwsmtp/

Answer 2

Check out C-Client

• Apache license
• Very established library ( makers of Pine email reader, UW-IMAP Server, etc. )
• Supports IMAP, POP, SMTP, and NNTP
• Unix and Windows

Answer 3

Look at VMime.

VMime is an all-in-one Internet mail library. This well designed, powerful C++ class library allows you to parse/build/modify MIME messages. With the messaging module, you can connect to POP3/IMAP/SMTP/Maildir very easily, and with the same code!