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CL-SMTP is a simple lisp smtp client. 
It works in ACL, SBCL, CMUCL, OPENMCL, LISPWORKS, CLISP and ECL.

new with support for send attachments, thanks Brian Sorg for the implementation

with authentication support for PLAIN and LOGIN authentication method

and ssl support with cl+ssl package

used cl-base64 and usocket packages (cl-base64 isn't a requirement on ACL)

See INSTALL for prerequisites and build details.

To use cl-smtp:

(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'cl-smtp)

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(cl-smtp:send-email host from to subject message
                    &key (port 25) cc bcc reply-to extra-headers html-message 
                    authentication attachments (buffer-size 256) ssl)

 Arguments:
  - host (String)                  : hostname or ip-adress of the smtpserver
  - from (String)                  : email adress 
  - to (String or List of Strings) : email adress 
  - subject (String)               : subject text
  - message (String)               : message body
  keywords:
  - cc (String or List of Strings) : email adress carbon copy
  - bcc (String or List of Strings): email adress blind carbon copy
  - reply-to (String)              : email adress
  - displayname (String)           : displayname of the sender
  - extra-headers (List)           : extra headers as alist
  - html-message (String)          : message body formatted with HTML tags
  - authentication (List)          : list with 2 or elements
                                     ([:method] "username" "password")
                                     method is a keyword :plain or :login
                                     If the method is not specified, the
                                     proper method is determined automatically.
  - attachments (String or Pathname: attachments to send
                List of String/Pathnames)
  - buffer-size (Number default 256): controls how much of a attachment file
                                      is read on each loop before encoding 
                                      and transmitting the contents, 
                                      the number is interpreted in KB 
  - ssl (or t :starttls :tls)       : if t or :STARTTLS: use the STARTTLS functionality
                                      if :TLS: use TLS directly

Returns nil or error with message

For debug output set the parameter *debug* to t (default nil)
(setf cl-smtp::*debug* t)

CL-SMTP set automaticly the Date header and the X-Mailer header.
X-Mailer: cl-smtp ((lisp-implementation-type) (lisp-implementation-version))

You can change this with setting the parameter *x-mailer*
(setf cl-smtp::*x-mailer* "my x-mailer string)

If you find bugs or want to send patches for enhancements, by email to
Jan Idzikowski <jidzikowski@common-lisp.net>