This is a library which implements the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP -- RFC 5321.
The Smtp::Client
class implements the client side of SMTP, supporting basic
connection to an SMTP server, client authentication, and the sending of e-mail.
This is a portable C++11 application which depends only on the C++11 compiler, the C and C++ standard libraries, and other C++11 libraries with similar dependencies, so it should be supported on almost any platform. The following are recommended toolchains for popular platforms.
- Windows -- Visual Studio (Microsoft Visual C++)
- Linux -- clang or gcc
- MacOS -- Xcode (clang)
This library is not intended to stand alone. It is intended to be included in a larger solution which uses CMake to generate the build system and build applications which will link with the library.
There are two distinct steps in the build process:
- Generation of the build system, using CMake
- Compiling, linking, etc., using CMake-compatible toolchain
- CMake version 3.8 or newer
- C++11 toolchain compatible with CMake for your development platform (e.g. Visual Studio on Windows)
- MessageHeaders - a library which can parse and generate e-mail or web message headers
- SystemAbstractions - a cross-platform adapter library for system services whose APIs vary from one operating system to another
Generate the build system using CMake from the solution root. For example:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A "x64" ..
Either use CMake or your toolchain's IDE to build. For CMake:
cd build
cmake --build . --config Release