Piped Messages?

From: Mike (comixnewb_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: 29 Sep 2003 13:09:17 -0700

Hi I know this is a realy dumb question but . . . could someone
explain to me what a piped message is? I searched the web and all I
could find was questions about errors that people got when they tried
to pipe a message. This realy didn't help me out. I think it is a way
to send email from one program to another or something like that. Can
anyone tell me how to do this? I know that you save it in as a text
file and I think you are supposed to "do" it in command prompt. I was
reading a computer book that talked about it but it didn't actually
explain how it works so the sample command line that it included
didn't help at all. Well thanks for any help that can be given!

ps the code in the book looked like this:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
helo
Mail from <your@email.com>
Rept to: <recipiant@mail.com>
Data
subject: message.
Importance: high
*Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html: charger = us-ascii
content- transfer-incodes; 7 bit*
<html>
<h2> MESSAGE <h2>
</html>
quit
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*According to the book this was the 'vital' part*