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

[Paul Breneman]

silvioprog wrote:
> 2013/3/24 <reinierolislagers at gmail.com>
> 
>> On 24-3-2013 15:19, Donald Ziesig wrote:
>>> 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).
>> Yep, seems about 3 years old:
>> cd C:\Development\extras\synapse
>> svn log laz_synapse.lpk | more
>> r129 | geby | 2010-07-02 12:46:39 +0200 (vr, 02 jul 2010) | 3 lines
>>
>> - improved MACOS compatibility
>> - workaround for some broken virtual serial ports
>> - Added Lazarus package
>>
>>> Has anyone had success in using this library under Linux (x86-64)?
>> Yes. See e.g. fpctwit, which happily runs under Linux. Also, the fpcup
>> Lazarus/fpc updater can install synapse for you, also the synapse trunk
>> version.
>>
>> AFAIK no need to change any synapse files.
>>
>> Please see the wiki page on synapse:
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/synapse
>>
>>> 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 Delphi/Borland c++ Builder) but it, too, is obsolete (latest updates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.
>> Please see the indy wiki page:
>> ... ah well, you'll be able to find it. It's cross referenced in the
>> synapse page as well IIRC.
>>
>>> Is there any other smtp and pop3 code available for Lazarus or will I
>>> have to generate my own from scratch?
>> There certainly is. IIRC, LazSolutions has code for sending email.
>> Synapse comes with an email example, or has it in the examples directory
>> on their site.
>> Code for sending email using synapse is floating around on e.g. the
>> synapse mailing list...
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Reinier
> 
> 
> Thanks for the indication Reinier! :)
> 
> Meet the XMailer also:
> 
> https://github.com/silvioprog/xmailer
> 
> XMailer is a nice plugin for send e-mails easily. It's improved derivation
> of LSSendMail. :) (it use Synapse too, and offers support to UTF-8)

Thanks Silvio.  Now I need to try and update this code:
   http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyemail.htm