> From: "Turner, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 5:08 AM
> Subject: RE: JSP source


> wget is a text-based client that can make HTTP and FTP requests, copying
the
> results to a file.

wget is a popular program, but may not be installed on your system, so
you'll need to hunt it down (and it is also merely an example, there are a
plethora of perl, python, ruby, etc scripts that will simply fetch a URL --
those are all viable as well).

> Sendmail is a MTA (mail transport agent).  Probably 2/3 or more of the
> electronic mail sent on the Internet is sent using sendmail at one point
or
> another.

Sendmail is also, essentially ubitquitous on UNIX systems. Pretty much every
UNIX system (or variant) in the past 10 years has Sendmail as their default
mailing system (I dunno about SCO, SCO always did things kind of strange,
but ...).

Now, to be fair, while your system MAY have sendmail, it may not be the
current system in place, as it is also often replaced for assorted reasons
by other mail systems. Also, sendmail may simply not be on your default
path.

I'm sure you'll hate me for this, but "Contact your System Administrator for
details". (Whenever I read that in a document, it's usually ME who's the Sys
Adm, and it usually means I have a lot more digging to do.)

However, the real point is that you are certainly welcome to write the
entire thing in Java. Java is more than adequate to the task, it's not
terribly difficult to do, and I'm confident you can find cut & paste code
around the net. However, it is also worthwhile to look at potential
alternatives that make these kinds of things easier to do.

Regards,

Will Hartung
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