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smtp-expn.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Expand an SMTP email mailing list
 * </DESC>
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
/* This is a simple example showing how to expand an email mailing list.
 *
 * Notes:
 *
 * 1) This example requires libcurl 7.34.0 or above.
 * 2) Not all email servers support this command.
 */
 
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
 
  CURLcode result = curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
  if(result != CURLE_OK)
    return (int)result;
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
 
    /* This is the URL for your mailserver */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com");
 
    /* Note that the CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT takes a list, not a char array */
    recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, "Friends");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);
 
    /* Set the EXPN command */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "EXPN");
 
    /* Perform the custom request */
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
    /* Check for errors */
    if(result != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(result));
 
    /* Free the list of recipients */
    curl_slist_free_all(recipients);
 
    /* curl does not send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you
     * should be able to reuse this connection for additional requests. It may
     * not be a good idea to keep the connection open for a long time though
     * (more than a few minutes may result in the server timing out the
     * connection) and you do want to clean up in the end.
     */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
 
  curl_global_cleanup();
 
  return 0;
}

Notice

This source code example is simplified and may ignore return codes and error checks. We do this to highlight the libcurl function calls and related options and reduce unrelated code.

A real-world application does of course properly check every return value and exit correctly at the first serious error.