Send mail programmatically?

[wheeljack]

I'm looking for a way to send an in game mail from within the zone's codebase. One example of a use for this would be to send those "Congrats on leveling up" emails like they do on live.

I *think* that the way mail works is that the client makes an additional connection to the chat server instead of it being handled by the zone server or the world server. I'm also not seeing a relationship available between the zone server and the chat server so I'm guessing that this kind of message forging is uncharted territory, but I'd love to be wrong on this one and have somebody point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!