Method Description

SmtpRequest.send()

Send a request to an SMTP server/daemon.

Syntax

number = SmtpRequest.send()

Parameters

The 'SmtpRequest.send' method takes no parameters

Results

The 'SmtpRequest.send' method returns number:

Remarks

Build an email message and send to recipients.

Example

The following simple example reads the contents of the Whitebeam homepage (www.whitebeam.org) and extracts all the anchor tags with 'href' attributes. These links are then formatted into a simple HTML table.

var request = new SmtpRequest;

request.to=['test@yellowhawk.co.uk'];
request.from = 'joe@somewhere.com';
request.subject= 'Hi Joe!';
request.body='How are you doing?';
request.send();
               

A separate SMTP tutorial explains how to use the SmtpRequest object in Whitebeam

The method returns the SMTP response code from the mail system. 250 is a success code. A full list of codes can be found in See RFC2821, section 4.2.3.