Re: ANN: Simple Components v4.13 released

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 01/06/2016 14:55, slos wrote:
> Le mercredi 1 juin 2016 14:12:27 UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>> On 01/06/2016 12:06, slos wrote:
>>
>>> AWS provides means to send and receive emails.
>>> Does "Simple Components" provide such facility too ?
>>> I have been through the documentation without finding it.
>>
>> Do you mean SMTP, POP3, IMAP protocols? No, I didn't implement them. It
>> should not be difficult but quite tedious in the part of reading through
>> all that huge pile of RFC documents.
>>
>> I presume with an ability to service multitude of sockets by a single
>> task, one could design a nicely horrendous mail bomber in Ada... (:-))
>>
> Well, that's not my use case... though I could think about bombing people with "Ada for Automation" related stuff... ;-)
>
> No, sometimes it can be useful to send either an SMS or email when some alarm occurs.
>
> Something like this :
> https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Send_email#Ada
> https://docs.adacore.com/aws-docs/aws/working_with_mails.html
>
> Mister Pascal Obry had one but it seems not available any more :
> http://pobry.blogspot.fr/p/ada-contributions.html
>
> It states :
> "SMTP		SMTP est une API Ada permettant d'envoyer des messages vers un serveur SMTP."
> But the link is dead :
> http://pascal.obry.pagesperso-orange.fr/archive/smtp.tar.gz
>
> May be because of integration in AWS.

So, basically, you need only an SMTP client, right?

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