ATL Servers support for SMTP and MIME is quite extensive . In a few lines of code, you can send SMTP messages from your application. Going further, you can take advantage of ATL Servers MIME support to send rich messages composed of text, HTML, files, and attachments. ATL Server integrates MLang services, so you can easily develop applications for the international market. ATL Server also exposes several functions that encode and decode data in a variety of formats. Youve seen how you can use these functions in any type of application. When performance is critical, you can use ATL Servers offline SMTP features to implement a SMTP message queuing system.
In the next chapter youll round out your education of ATL Server by moving away from server-side applications and looking how you can apply ATL Server in client-side applications.