Sending email with lithium

[shivshankardayal]

What library will you recommend to send email with lithium?

[matt-42]

Hi @shivshankardayal , I never dealt with this problem before. But I would do it this way:

• build a thread safe queue of outgoing mails.
• in the server API handlers, push mails to the queue.
• in parallel to the server, start a thread that uses a smtp client library (libcurl for example) to process the queue.

This page shows how to use libcurl to send mails: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/smtp-mail.html

[shivshankardayal]

Point no. 1 and 2 I understand. Can you provide code for step 3 please or a complete example because it is quite common for a web application to send email?

[matt-42]

I'll add this to my todolist. In the meantime you can check this libcurl example: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/smtp-mail.html

[shivshankardayal]

Thanks, I am aware of libcurl and its facilities.