batch script to send email

Question

How to write a Windows batch script to send a mail? Give an example

Answer 1

I would suggest downloading and installing a command line emailing program. The best freeware one that I can see is:

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

From there, save the downloaded .exe to a good location on your HDD (possibly in c:/program files/bmail) and add that directory to your PATH ( see http://www.brightrev.com/how-to/windows/35-add-a-utilities-directory-to-your-pc.html?start=1 for instructions ).

From then, you could setup a small batch script such as this:

@echo off
bmail -s smtp.example.com -p 465 -t [e-mail] -f [e-mail] -h -a "INSERT SUBJECT HERE" -b "INSERT MESSAGE TEXT HERE"

Then to send an email to that email address, just run the batch file.

If you want, you could change it to accept parameters so you can customise the message: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/parameters.php .

Important: I'm pretty sure bmail won't work if the SMTP server requires authentication, so you'll need to find one you can use. Maybe set one up on the server without a username and password, and that can only be accessed from localhost?

Answer 2

You will need to use a third party tool such as blat (http://www.blat.net/). Then in your batch file, you would have a line like the following:

blat -to [e-mail] -f [e-mail] -subject "Email Subject" -body "Email body" -server mysmtphost

Answer 3

You can enable the installed SMTP Server of Windows. And then run a power shell script:

$subject = $args[0]

# Create from/to addresses
$from = New-Object system.net.mail.MailAddress "[e-mail]"
$to = New-Object system.net.mail.MailAddress "[e-mail]"

# Create Message
$message = new-object system.net.mail.MailMessage $from, $to
$message.Subject = $subject
$message.Body = @"
Warning message from the Supertext Server
"@

# Set SMTP Server and create SMTP Client
$server = "209.162.190.6"
$client = new-object system.net.mail.smtpclient $server

# SO do it
"Sending an e-mail message to {0} by using SMTP host {1} port {2}." -f $to.ToString(), $client.Host, $client.Port
try {
$client.Send($message)
}
catch {
"Exception caught in CreateTestMessage: {0}" -f $Error.ToString()
}