Comments on: Send email w/attachment via batch file

By: Featured Member: Orangehat - ITKE Community Blog

Featured Member: Orangehat - ITKE Community Blog — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:03:47 +0000

[...] Send email w/ attachment via batch file [...]

By: rechil

rechil — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:12:50 +0000

@DoneThat / Gary, I have already mentioned for the SW called “BLAT” ….. with its Link though u used it and expressed ur experience ! Thanks for ur shared opinion.

Generally / commonly, batch file refers to Windows OS. Whenever u hear about batch file, at very first, u have to remind for Widows OS.

By: donethat

donethat — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:20:08 +0000

I used BLAT for years. Sent about 400 “price change” & “marketing” emails per week with PDFs attached.
References:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blat/
http://www.blat.net/194/
I ended up developing a fairly sophisticated “set of bat files” (Windows) to do error detection and logging. BLAT always worked.
Gary

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:54:57 +0000

Rechil, you might be right. It is probably Windows, but “batch file” is not a windows-exclusive term at all.

By: rechil

rechil — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:51:14 +0000

I guessed, the OS might be any Windows flavour ! coz the Q asker already mentioned the word “batch file” and not only that, I also guessed the application might be OL

By: orangehat

orangehat — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:38:46 +0000

From a windows environment we use bmail and have windows to schedule the task.
http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm
2 notes on this.
Your antivirus (mcafee for example) will prevent you from sending email so you have do disable it or add bmail.exe.. For mcafee under virusscan console, ‘access protection properties’, ‘anti-virus standard protection’ you will have a ‘block’ under ‘Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail’. you need to add bmail.exe to its exclude list.
Also, for exchange./hubcas server (you send email to that IP addrtess), under ‘server configuration’, ‘hub transport’, on the right will be ‘receive connectors’. Change ‘Internal Relay’. right click on it, left click on properties, under ‘network’ , add the IP address of the sending IP address to remove the need to authenticate as bmail (and others) don’t so it can just send the mail and not authenticate.
It’s how we do it. somebody else may have a better idea.
Hope this helps.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:56:47 +0000

An important detail is missing:

What operating system ?

In case this is on Windows, Bmail could be an option.

In this article, they show how to send e-mail attachments using Bmal and mpack:

Command Line SMTP Mailer for Batch Jobs

By: rechil

rechil — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:25:00 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to redirect here for a good Instructions

By: rechil

rechil — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:22:11 +0000

Try using Bla a small tool that sends email, u can use it in scripts. It is Here