Network Utilities (#44)

pen(host, port [, connect-connection-to]) => connection
open a network connection (using open_network_connection).
If 'connect-connection-to' is a player object, the
connection will be connected to that object when it
gets the first line of input.

:close(connection)
closes the connection & cleans up data

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Parsing network things:

:invalid_email_address(email)
return "" or string saying why 'email' is invalid.
uses .valid_email_regexp

:invalid_hostname(host)
return "" or string saying why 'host' doesn't look
like a valid internet host name

:local_domain(host)
returns the 'important' part of a host name, e.g.
golden.parc.xerox.com => parc.xerox.com

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Sending mail

:sendmail(to, subject, @lines)
send mail to the email address 'to' with indicated subject.
header fields like 'from', 'date', etc. are filled in.
lines can start with additional header lines.

:raw_sendmail(to, @lines)
used by :sendmail. Send mail to given user at host, just
as specified, no error checking.

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Parameters:

.active If 0, disabled sending of mail.

.site Where does this MOO run?
(Maybe MOOnet will use it later).

.port The network port this MOO listens on.

.large_domains
A list of sites where more than 2 levels of host name are
significant, e.g., if you want 'parc.xerox.com' to be
different than 'cinops.xerox.com', put "xerox.com" as an
element in .large_domains.

.postmaster
Email address to which problems with MOO mail should
go. This should be a real email address that someone reads.

.maildrop
Hostname to connect to for dropping off mail. Usually can
just be "localhost".

.reply_address
If a MOO character sends email, where does a reply go?
Inserted in 'From:' for mail from characters without
registration addresses.

.trusts
List of (non-wizard) programmers who can call
pen, :sendmail, :close

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