I'm trying to make my UBB send out passwords via email using blat, as my ISP doesn't allow me to relay email through the SMTP server via the ubb. I know it sucks, but I'll have to live with it.

Anyway, what I'm trying to replace the SendEmail sub with is...

[QUOTE]<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">
sub SendEmail {
## Uses these variables: $EmailServer, $sendto, $from,
## $subject, and $message

$from = "$BBEmail";


$protocol = getprotobyname('tcp');
socket(SOCKET,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,$protocol);
$remote_ip = gethostbyname($EmailServer);
$remote_sock = pack('Sna4x8', AF_INET, 25, $remote_ip);


$blat="blat.exe "$message" -s "$subject" -t "$sendto" -server $EmailServer -f "$from"";
system($blat);

}

</font>[/QUOTE]I'm not too fussed about setting it up for multiple recipients, I just want a quick and dirty way to send out passwords via email. No mass mailings to my users, no UBBFriend or anything, just passwords.

I get no error messages when I use my code(I know it's because I have no error handling routines in there ) but I get no email output. Using the same sub in a script of its own, replacing the variables with fixed data(senders email addy, etC) works fine.

I'm not a perl programmer, I've just been reading through the code and trying to hack it. I know it's probably going in the completely wrong direction, but I really need to make this work and cannot find anything about it at UBBDev.com or ubbhackers.com.

Any help or advice is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Rich

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are you self hosting?

I'm by no means an expert in this field, but wouldn't you need to escape the subject and message?

Just a thought