Backstory: We've got a system in place here that tracks production numbers in the plant (parts made, scrap percentage, efficiency etc..)...this system reports it's numbers to a server that compiles reports etc..etc.. these reports can be accessed via a webpage on the server...another function of the system is that when a line is down or if the line operator needs material...they can press a button and it will display the call on a big plasma monitor...
New stuff: We're getting a pager system that will integrate into this system so that when someone presses the "line down" button it will page the engineer responsible for that line as well as maintenance personel...this pager system accepts SMTP traffic for paging ([email protected]). well the company charges extra for the ability to connect to the paging device to do manual pages....but if i send a message via SMTP...then i bypass that....so i need to have a webpage that will send SMTP messages from the server and i have no idea how to do such a thing...
basically the page will just need to have the pager numbers in a selectable field and a place to type in a message...etc...