SMTPsend V0.5b
			November 1997

Copyright

SMTPsend is FULLY copyright (c) 1997 Stephan Reed ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This  version  may be freely distributed and used but  no  alterations
may  be made to the program,  documents and it must be distributed  in
the  archive  (SMTPsend.lha)  which contains:   

	SMTPsend  
	SMTPsend.doc
	Changes.txt
	Warning.txt

You use this software completly at your own risk.

Requirements

You  must  be  using SMTPpost (and all that goes with it!)   for  this
program to be of any use. It can be found on the aminet in:

comm/net/IU-14-as225.lha (for AS225) comm/tcp/IU-14-
amitcp.lha (for AMItcp/Miami etc)

Background
When  I  started using SMTPpost as an external emailer for some  email
programs  I  found there was no way to write mail off  line  and  then
send it all the instant I was on line.  You can use SMTPpost and SMTPd
together but you have to wait about 4 minutes after you run SMTPd  for
your  email  to be sent.  As I have a dial-up account and  have  timed
phone calls I didn't like this idea.

This  program examines a directory and using SMTPpost  tries  to  send
all the files there, the moment its run.

I'm  sure there's other programs to do this but I thought I would just
write my own as I have some time to spare :)


Pre-Beta

This  archive contains a pre-beta version of SMTPsend.  Its  not  that
good  yet  but  I  posted it to see if anyone else was  interested  in
using  it.  If no one is,  then I wont post further versions.   Please
email  me at the address below if you think you might have a  use  for
it.

There is loads more the final release will do ...
	
* Have an option to switch of output display
* Proper documentation!
* A GUI (maybee?)
* Proper handling of X.#? and D.#? files.

... and anything else you want done (just email me at
moonchild@enterprise.net)


Usage

WARNING:   SMTPsend  now  delete sucesfully  send  files  by  default.
Earlier versions did not do this.  To move files instead make sure you
have  the  - m and the directory (for them to be moved into)   in  the
command line.

Its  realy  simple.  Just place this program in the same directory  as
SMTPpost and run it from CLI as follows:

   SMTPsend [-l] <drive:directory> [-m <sentdrive:directory>] [options]

	-l switches on the log file. (The l must be lower case!)

	<drive:directory> is the directory the mail is in.

	-m causes succesfully files to be moved instead of
		delete. It must be lower case and must always be 
		followed by the direcory files are to be moved to.
	<sent drive:directory> is where emails are moved if sent.

	<options> is the options for smtppost

It  will  then  use SMTP post to send all the files in  the  specified
directory.  The ones that are sucessfully sent are then then moved  to
the  directory  specified or delete if the -m option is not set.

A  logfile  will  be  created in the same directory  as  the  program,
called SMTPsend.log.  If you don't want this just don't include the -l
option.

Anything  after  the 'send directory' (or the main  directory  if  you
don't have the move option set)  will be added to the smtppost command
line,   so  just put any options you would normaly use  with  smtppost
here. (See docs with SMTPpost).

Have SMTPpost set up so it queues all files to the directory you  have
chosen!  (For more info on setting up SMTPpost see docs that come with
it).


Bugs

-  Sends mail with more then one name in the 'From:' field to all  the
recipients. SMTPpost creates one such file for each person however, so
all the people will get several copies of the same email! This will be
fixed in the next release.

I'm sure there must be more so if you find them please email me at

	moonchild@enterprise.net

NB remember this is a pre-beta version so don't expect to much yet!