curl/docs/examples/smtp-authzid.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Send email on behalf of another user with SMTP
 * </DESC>
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

/*
 * This is a simple example show how to send an email using libcurl's SMTP
 * capabilities.
 *
 * Note that this example requires libcurl 7.66.0 or above.
 */

/* The libcurl options want plain addresses, the viewable headers in the mail
 * can very well get a full name as well.
 */
#define FROM_ADDR    "<ursel@example.org>"
#define SENDER_ADDR  "<kurt@example.org>"
#define TO_ADDR      "<addressee@example.net>"

#define FROM_MAIL    "Ursel " FROM_ADDR
#define SENDER_MAIL  "Kurt " SENDER_ADDR
#define TO_MAIL      "A Receiver " TO_ADDR

static const char *payload_text =
  "Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:54:29 +1100\r\n"
  "To: " TO_MAIL "\r\n"
  "From: " FROM_MAIL "\r\n"
  "Sender: " SENDER_MAIL "\r\n"
  "Message-ID: <dcd7cb36-11db-487a-9f3a-e652a9458efd@"
  "rfcpedant.example.org>\r\n"
  "Subject: SMTP example message\r\n"
  "\r\n" /* empty line to divide headers from body, see RFC 5322 */
  "The body of the message starts here.\r\n"
  "\r\n"
  "It could be a lot of lines, could be MIME encoded, whatever.\r\n"
  "Check RFC 5322.\r\n";

struct upload_status {
  size_t bytes_read;
};

static size_t payload_source(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
{
  struct upload_status *upload_ctx = (struct upload_status *)userp;
  const char *data;
  size_t room = size * nmemb;

  if((size == 0) || (nmemb == 0) || ((size*nmemb) < 1)) {
    return 0;
  }

  data = &payload_text[upload_ctx->bytes_read];

  if(data) {
    size_t len = strlen(data);
    if(room < len)
      len = room;
    memcpy(ptr, data, len);
    upload_ctx->bytes_read += len;

    return len;
  }

  return 0;
}

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
  struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
  struct upload_status upload_ctx = { 0 };

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    /* This is the URL for your mailserver. In this example we connect to the
       smtp-submission port as we require an authenticated connection. */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com:587");

    /* Set the username and password */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERNAME, "kurt");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PASSWORD, "xipj3plmq");

    /* Set the authorization identity (identity to act as) */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID, "ursel");

    /* Force PLAIN authentication */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, "AUTH=PLAIN");

    /* Note that this option is not strictly required, omitting it will result
     * in libcurl sending the MAIL FROM command with empty sender data. All
     * autoresponses should have an empty reverse-path, and should be directed
     * to the address in the reverse-path which triggered them. Otherwise,
     * they could cause an endless loop. See RFC 5321 Section 4.5.5 for more
     * details.
     */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM, FROM_ADDR);

    /* Add a recipient, in this particular case it corresponds to the
     * To: addressee in the header. */
    recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, TO_ADDR);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);

    /* We are using a callback function to specify the payload (the headers and
     * body of the message). You could just use the CURLOPT_READDATA option to
     * specify a FILE pointer to read from. */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, payload_source);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &upload_ctx);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);

    /* Send the message */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    /* Check for errors */
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(res));

    /* Free the list of recipients */
    curl_slist_free_all(recipients);

    /* curl will not send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you
     * should be able to re-use this connection for additional messages
     * (setting CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM and CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT as required, and
     * calling curl_easy_perform() again. It may not be a good idea to keep
     * the connection open for a very long time though (more than a few
     * minutes may result in the server timing out the connection), and you do
     * want to clean up in the end.
     */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }

  return (int)res;
}