[Lazarus] Sending e-mail from within Lazarus

[Brian]

On 05/11/2018 08:18 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2018-05-11 01:12, brian wrote:
>> I omitted to put in my original post that I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu
>> Studio. All the Indy examples I've been able to find seem to require
>> Windows DLLs to implement SSL/TLS.
> 
> It works just fine under Windows, Linux and FreeBSD too. I've testing
> them all. On Linux and Windows it uses the OpenSSL libraries - which
> normally comes standard with the system.
> 
> To save you some trouble, I've attached a fully working console demo.
> Edit the config.ini to match your details. Also edit the SMTP host name
> inside the program unit. Sending emails via Gmail requires a extra step
> - you need to log into your Gmail with a Web Browser and under security
> settings, authenticate the "unknown device". When the console app gives
> an error on the first run, it will output URL you can use to get to that
> settings page (thanks Google).
> 
> The "IndySecureMailClient.pas" implements a wrapper class for Indy's
> SMTP and SSL handling making it super easy to use. The wrapper class in
> fact adds all Indy's abilities of encryption for convenience. Indy rocks!!!
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 

Thank you. I'll take a close look at it all over the weekend. I much
prefer this sort of solution to trying to call one of the Linux 'mail
from command line' utilities.

Brian.