send-letter

Arguments: mail-server from to message &key subject reply-to cc bcc headers

mail-server can be a string naming a machine or an integer IP address. The mail-server is contacted and asked to send message (a string) from the email address specified by from to the email address or list of addresses specified by to. The email addresses must be of the form "foo" or "foo@bar.com". You can not use addresses like "Joe <foo@bar.com>" or "(Joe) foo@bar.com".

A mail header is built and prepended to the message before it is sent. The mail header includes a From line and a To line and will optionally include a Subject and Reply-To line if those are given (as values of the subject and reply-to keyword arguments) in the call to send-letter. The value of the headers keyword argument should be a string or list of stings (or nil). These are raw header lines added to the header sent out with the letter.

cc and bcc can be either be a string or a list of strings naming recipients. All cc's and bcc's are sent the message but the bcc's are not included in the header.

The text of the message should be lines separated by #\newline's. The smtp interface will automatically insert the necessary #\returns's when it transmits the message to the mail server.

See imap.htm for more information.

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Created 2002.2.26.