[Lazarus] How to send Email from Lazarus program under Linux x86-64

[Donald Ziesig]

Hi All!

I am trying to implement a program that will send emails to (a subset 
of) an application-specific roster.

I found numerous references to synapse so I downloaded the source which 
includes a .lpk library (it is several years old).  When I tried to 
compile it under Lazarus 1.1, fpc 2.6.2, the compiler could not find a 
method called inet_addr.  I searched the synapse source code and it 
showed numerous references to inet_addr, but no place where it was 
defined for fpc.  I hacked the code so it used linux rather than fpc and 
it failed while looking for unit libc, before ever getting to the 
inet_addr declaration.  I looked for libc and found that it is obsolete 
and does not seem to be available for 64-bit systems anyway.

Has anyone had success in using this library under Linux (x86-64)?

I also examined Indy (which I used successfully years ago on 
Delphi/Borland c++ Builder) but it, too, is obsolete (latest updates 
seem to be circa 2006) and comes with many, many warnings and caveats.

I found Mailpas (also from 2006) but I am having problems compiling the 
library -- it says it can't find a file which really is there where it 
is supposed to be.  -- During the long mailing list shutdown I found 
that the compiler message about a non-existent include file was wrong.  
The actual failure was that the include file "uses libc" which does not 
exist on my system (same problem as with synapse).  I'll submit a bug 
report as soon as I can.

Is there any other smtp and pop3 code available for Lazarus or will I 
have to generate my own from scratch?

Thanks,

Don Ziesig
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