Batch file to send an attachment via email

Green Athene

Hi,

Could somebody give me some advise on how to create a batch file that will send an email to a user and attach a file to this email?

I do not want to use a third party software like blat etc.

Is there a simple way to do it?
I have created the bit that opens an email message and inputs the subject and recipient but how do I make it attach a file and send the email?

Thanks.

Evil Phil

Could you post the code of the batch file?

Green Athene

START mailto:x@abc.com?subject=Test%%20messageˆ&cc=w@abc.comˆ&body=Hi,%%0D%%0A%%0D%%0AThis%%20is%%20an%%20automatically%%20created%%20message.%%0D%%0A%%0D%%0ABye

seamus

I don't think you'll be able to add an attachment to an email using this method.

You may be better off installing a scripting engine such as Perl or PHP on the machine and using that to script the process, since these contain libraries set up to handle email sending.

I'm assuming you're looking to create this as a scheduled job, which makes a proper scripting engine all the better.

Green Athene

seamus wrote: »

I don't think you'll be able to add an attachment to an email using this method.

You may be better off installing a scripting engine such as Perl or PHP on the machine and using that to script the process, since these contain libraries set up to handle email sending.

I'm assuming you're looking to create this as a scheduled job, which makes a proper scripting engine all the better.

Hi Seamus,

Thanks.
Yes, that is exactly what I want to do. I need it to run every day to send me the content of a log file.

Green Athene

Any other ideas how I could create such a batch file?

Thanks.

Ginger

You could use VBS quite easily to do this if you are working on a windows platform and using one of the MS Mail clients or CDO.

Hobbes

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm