Hi Russell,

> I want to send files by email from a "DOS box" in Windows
> - XP, Vista, WIN2000, ... .
> Ideally from the command line or batch file or script.
> Batch file or DOS level commands which can be accessed via DOS
> calls from a steam driven application would be most desirable.
>
> Any amount of high level arcanery exists to do this - I'd like
> some low level arcanery.

> Ideally I want a system process that takes a directory of files
> and sends them one per message with a subject line to a specified
> location by email.  (Subject line becomes a website photo title.
> Destination address sets folder & album they appear in).

I'd write a tiny C program that takes the image (I assume a .JPG)
and creates an standard Unix style message file.  Easy to make
templates for header pieces & trailer piece.  Build message with
header1 + destination-address + header2 + subject-line + header3
+ base64-encoded-image + trailer.  For a high volume application
like this, you might want to embed the header & trailer pieces
into the C source.  One file == one message simplifies things.
It's truly not hard.

I will supply a base64encoder utility in C on request.

Use Cygwin shell scripts (I'm a Unix guy) to run process over
all files in given directory.  After it's sent, either delete
or move file out of drop-box area.  Script run continuously in
the background or manually whenever you want to do processing.

This only needs an SMTP client utility.  I've heard that sSMTP
will build out of the box under Cygwin.  Also there appears to
be a Win32 native application called  blat  that is an SMTP
client for Windows boxes.

Or you may have a sendmail (only client side needed) available.
Under Mac OS, I'd use Postfix's sendmail command.

						Lee Jones

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