cross platform FTP and SMTP libraries

Hello

I am writing a console app ( cross platform ) that will send some files to an FTP server or send it as an attachment to some email address. Can somebody suggest me some good FREE cross platform libraries to perform the above jobs?

Thanks in advance.

Google for libesmtp and libftp. Both are opensource SMTP and FTP libraries for linux. They should at least be compatible with everything except Windows, but may also compile under Windows (I haven't checked them out, I'm not sure). If they don't, it would only take some small changes here and there (mostly dealing with sockets and threads, more so with the threads) and I'm sure the developers of those libraries would appreciate the Windows port.

Alternatively, you could just do it yourself. SMTP is very simple, and FTP is not quite as simple but you should still be able to write a limited FTP client library quickly.

Here is the SMTP specification, and here is the FTP one. They are fairly similar protocols so you might find that a lot of your code can be used for both.

J.C.