Batch file email bomber?

Is it possible to make a batch email bomber? I want to be able to repeatedly connect to an smtp server via telnet and, if possible, pull mail messages from specified text files. Otherwise, I just want to be able to repeatedly send mail to a single address with a looping batch file. Can you even telnet with batch…?

I have done some research but I don't know if this can work, I'm attempting to make one right now though.

Thanks for any help!

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Only thing is, I don't know php and I don't have time to learn much right now, what with all the insane classes I'm taking…

I plan to, of course, as soon as I get time, but for now it can't be helped.

But is this even possible in batch?

[edit] as soon as it connects to the mailserver, cmd stops reading the batch and the server takes over control for input. [/edit]

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And look here: http://email.about.com/cs/phpemailtips/qt/et031202.htm

Now you just use a for statement to make it loop.

K, cool. I kinda wanted to figure out how to make somethign on my own, but that link is useful. One more thing: php can be run on an apache server on my own machine, right? and how does this send mail… how does it know what to connect to/ how to send? Unless php has this built-in… I honestly don't know much (far less than I should =\ ) about php…

[edit] OK i'm at w3schools, I see the thing about php.ini… I'll look into that, so I can specify an external smtp server? [/edit]

There's a link in the article which explains what you need: http://email.about.com/cs/phpemailtips/qt/et022802.htm

OK, cool, thanks very much. One last thing… Does apache have any kind of smtp mailserver or do I need to get software from somewhere else?