Hello,
I have to test a email system, and so have to send a set a testing
emails to it(usually malformed).
I have to choose a script language to do that, I'd like to have some
advice. I'm considering :
- perl
- VB
- php
It has to be low-level enough to deal directly with SMTP server.
It will also need to get the emails from a databse, Access or MySQL.
thank a lot for your opinion !
On comp.mail.misc, in <1126210535.387294.226480@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "vincent_lepage" wrote:
well, anonymously, are you sure ?????
(google forced me to give my email address...)
BTW, I know how to use a real newsreader, thank you, but I can not do
it from my company's office.
Well, I rather expected to talk about net::smtp or things like that,
and to learn/share something...
vincent_lepage wrote:
> Hello,
> I have to test a email system, and so have to send a set a testing
> emails to it(usually malformed).
>
> I have to choose a script language to do that, I'd like to have some
> advice. I'm considering :
> - perl
> - VB
> - php
>
> It has to be low-level enough to deal directly with SMTP server.
> It will also need to get the emails from a databse, Access or MySQL.
>
> thank a lot for your opinion !
>
Vincent,
Based on your subsequent response, you seem to be inclined to go through
an SMTP session.
If you have access to the system with the mail server you plan on
testing, using a plain old shell and even on the command line the
delivery mechanism can be tested. By cating a message with To, From,
Subject, Date and the body of a message into sendmail -oi -fyouremail -t
AK
thanks,
yes I have access to a mail server.
I'll take a look at how to do it with shell
vincent
vincent_lepage
> thanks,
> yes I have access to a mail server.
> I'll take a look at how to do it with shell
You may want to extract what you need from
http://freshmeat.net/projects/popchecksh/
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#spam
which does POP3 handshaking. SMTP handshaking isn't be that different.
--
William Park
ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html
BashDiff: Super Bash shell
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
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vincent_lepage writes:
> well, anonymously, are you sure ?????
> (google forced me to give my email address...)
Please don't worry about Beavis. He's a well-known paranoia-filled kookbag
on this newsgroup. He shows up once every other week, or so, posts
something stupid, then disappears for another two weeks.
Beavis claims to be a personal friend of Bigfoot (http://tinyurl.com/6dkxn),
who once was kidnapped and raped by Xena, the Warrior Princess
(http://tinyurl.com/4otkh). He is a member of a UFO cult
(http://tinyurl.com/2hhdx), and a practicing dentist
(http://tinyurl.com/3h6a5).
> BTW, I know how to use a real newsreader, thank you, but I can not do
> it from my company's office.
>
> Well, I rather expected to talk about net::smtp or things like that,
> and to learn/share something...
Don't worry about it. Please see the Beavis FAQ, which has just been
posted.
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wouahh ! thanks Sam for the link, I enjoyed.
thanks William too, I'm not very used to shell but this code is helpful
for me.
On comp.mail.misc, in
'Beavis' doesn't read your posts, nor any responses to them,
and hasn't in years. (regardless of which of your numerous
aliases you are employing at the moment)
And you know this perfectly well. He's told you a hundred times.
So he can't be refusing to answer any questions found in them,
can he?
2+2=4.
I'm sure that your inability to think clearly has a lot to do
with his decision to leave the bodies of your posts on the
server.
AC
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Usenet Beavis writes:
> On comp.mail.misc, in
>
>
> 'Beavis' doesn't read your posts, nor any responses to them,
That would be Beavis FAQ entry #6
> and hasn't in years. (regardless of which of your numerous
> aliases you are employing at the moment)
Entry #5
> And you know this perfectly well. He's told you a hundred times.
Who's "he" Beavis. You're referring to yourself in third person form. Now
that's something new.
> So he can't be refusing to answer any questions found in them,
> can he?
Wait -- I figured it out. This wasn't posted by Beavis. Bigfoot's posting
to Usenet! That's where all the third person form references must come
from.
> 2+2=4.
>
> I'm sure that your inability to think clearly has a lot to do
> with his decision to leave the bodies of your posts on the
> server.
THE BEAVIS BULL
(sung to the theme song from "The Brady Bunch")
This is a story,
Of a kook named Beavis,
Who was spewing all his nonsense all day long,
Everyone knew it's full of bull,
There's no doubt,
It's 100% all wrong.
This is a story,
Of endless laughter,
At all the nonsense our pet Beavis ever spewed.
He's as nutty as they come,
On alt.kooks,
But he won't read this post.
And when one day our pet Beavis blew his cookies,
With his biggest kookfart known up to now.
Then the truth, has finally dawned on everyone,
That our Beavis is full of bullshit all the time.
The Beavis bull,
The Beavis bull,
That's the way
We all laugh
At all his bull.
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D. Stussy
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Alan Connor wrote:
> > On comp.mail.misc, in
> >
> >
> > 'Beavis' doesn't read your posts, nor any responses to them,
> > and hasn't in years. (regardless of which of your numerous
> > aliases you are employing at the moment)
>
> Alan "Beavis" Connor just replied to such a post he "never reads."
>
> ...And I never thought there could ever be someone truly more stupid than a
> spammer....
Well, it depends on what you mean by "post". He distinguishes between
header and body (see your quote above). He *does* read *headers*, to the
extreme, and (says he) uses the information in the headers to determine
whether or not to download the (header and) body.
So if "post" means header+body, then there no indication/proof that he
(downloaded and) read Sam's "post".
OTOH, if "post" means *any* part of an article, i.e. (part of) header
or/and body, then he indeed (downloaded and) read Sam's "post".
So perhaps AC should clarify what *he* means by "post"! :-)
vincent_lepage wrote:
> Hello,
> I have to test a email system, and so have to send a set a testing
> emails to it(usually malformed).
>
> I have to choose a script language to do that, I'd like to have some
> advice. I'm considering :
> - perl
> - VB
> - php
>
> It has to be low-level enough to deal directly with SMTP server.
> It will also need to get the emails from a databse, Access or MySQL.
>
> thank a lot for your opinion !
I think whichever language you know best will be the one to choose.
There is a book you might find helpful - "Programming Internet Email"
by David Woods published by O'Reilly.
Daniel Feenberg