sending an email from a C/C++ program in linux

Question

I would like to send an email to my gmail account everytime my simulation ends. I have tried searching the web and found sendEmail but it is timing-out. If anyone could poin

Answer 1

I like the answer of trojanfoe above, BUT in my case I needed to turn on an email sending agent.. an MTA to enable linux to send emails - I have found exim4 to be a relatively simple MTA to get working and that trojanfoe's program works very nicely with it.

to get it to work I used (on a debian type system in a virtual box (crunchbang linux))

sudo apt-get install exim

sudo apt-get install mailutils

I configured exim4 with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

and I told the computer about my normal (remote) email address with

sudo emacs /etc/email-addresses

hope this might be useful as these were the steps I found worked to get my linux system sending email with trojanfoe's email program above