Sending email from Command-line via outlook without having to click send

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I need to send email via command-line without any human interactions for automation   I know we can use mailto command but that would compose email  subject body and everything but it wouldn t send it unless I click send   I read online we can use blat but I cannot use anything other than outlook   This is closed post I have found Link to SOF post   just for your information  I am looking into some telnet commands to send email haven t gotten success in that yet either   telnet commands to send email

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Send SMS Text Messages from Command Line with VBScript   If VBA meets the rules for VB Script then it can be called from command line by simply placing it into a text file - in this case there s no need to specifically open Outlook   I had a need to send automated text messages to myself from the command line  so I used the code below  which is just a compressed version of  Geoff s answer above   Most mobile phone carriers worldwide provide an email address  version  of your mobile phone number   For example in Canada with Rogers or Chatr Wireless  an email sent to  lt YourPhoneNumber gt   pcs rogers com will be immediately delivered to your Rogers Chatr phone as a text message      You may need to  authorize  the first message on your phone  and some carriers may charge an additional fee for theses message although as far as I know  all Canadian carriers provide this little-known service for free  Check your carrier s website for details   There are further instructions and various compiled lists of worldwide carrier s Email-to-Text addresses available online such as this and this and this     Code  amp  Instructions   Copy the code below and paste into a new file in your favorite text editor    Save the file with any name with a  VBS extension  such as TextMyself vbs      That s all  Just double-click the file to send a test message  or else run it from a batch file using START   Sub SendMessage       Const EmailToSMSAddy    3215551212 pcs rogers com      Dim objOutlookRecip     With CreateObject  Outlook Application   CreateItem 0          Set objOutlookRecip    Recipients Add EmailToSMSAddy          objOutlookRecip Type   1          Subject    The computer needs your attention            Body    Go see why Windows Command Line is texting you            Save          Send     End With End Sub     Example Batch File Usage   START x  mypath TextMyself vbs   Of course there are endless possible ways this could be adapted and customized to suit various practical or creative needs

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Option 1 You didn t say much about your environment  but assuming you have it available you could use a PowerShell script  one example is here   The essence of this is    smtp   New-Object Net Mail SmtpClient  ho-ex2010-caht1 exchangeserverpro net    smtp Send  reports exchangeserverpro net   administrator exchangeserverpro net   Test Email   This is a test     You could then launch the script from the command line as per this example   powershell exe -noexit c  scripts test ps1   Note that PowerShell 2 0  which is installed by default on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2  includes a simpler Send-MailMessage command  making things easier   Option 2 If you re prepared to use third-party software  is something line this SendEmail command-line tool   It depends on your target environment  though  if you re deploying your batch file to multiple machines  that will obviously require inclusion  but not formal installation  each time   Option 3 You could drive Outlook directly from a VBA script  which in turn you would trigger from a batch file  this would let you send an email using Outlook itself  which looks to be closest to what you re wanting   There are two parts to this  first  figure out the VBA scripting required to send an email   There are lots of examples for this online  including from Microsoft here   Essence of this is   Sub SendMessage DisplayMsg As Boolean  Optional AttachmentPath      Dim objOutlook As Outlook Application     Dim objOutlookMsg As Outlook MailItem     Dim objOutlookRecip As Outlook Recipient     Dim objOutlookAttach As Outlook Attachment      Set objOutlook   CreateObject  Outlook Application       Set objOutlookMsg    objOutlook CreateItem olMailItem       With objOutlookMsg         Set objOutlookRecip    Recipients Add  Nancy Davolio           objOutlookRecip Type   olTo           Set the Subject  Body  and Importance of the message           Subject    This is an Automation test with Microsoft Outlook           Body    This is the body of the message    amp vbCrLf  amp  vbCrLf          Importance   olImportanceHigh   High importance          If Not IsMissing AttachmentPath  Then             Set objOutlookAttach    Attachments Add AttachmentPath          End If          For Each ObjOutlookRecip In  Recipients             objOutlookRecip Resolve         Next           Save          Send     End With     Set objOutlook   Nothing End Sub   Then  launch Outlook from the command line with the  autorun parameter  as per this answer  alter path macroname as necessary    C  Program Files Microsoft Office Office11 Outlook exe   autorun macroname   Option 4 You could use the same approach as option 3  but move the Outlook VBA into a PowerShell script  which you would run from a command line    Example here   This is probably the tidiest solution  IMO

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You can use cURL and CRON to run  php files at set times   Here s an example of what cURL needs to run the  php file   curl http   localhost myscript php   Then setup the CRON job to run the above cURL   nano -w  var spool cron root or crontab -e   Followed by   01          usr bin curl http   www yoursite com script php   For more info about  check out this post  https   www scalescale com tips nginx execute-php-scripts-automatically-using-cron-curl   For more info about cURL  What is cURL in PHP   For more info about CRON  http   code tutsplus com tutorials scheduling-tasks-with-cron-jobs--net-8800  Also  if you would like to learn about setting up a CRON job on your hosted server  just inquire with your host provider  and they may have a GUI for setting it up in the c-panel  such as http   godaddy com  or http   1and1 com     NOTE  Technically I believe you can setup a CRON job to run the  php file directly  but I m not certain   Best of luck with the automatic PHP running  -

[command-line] Sending email from Command-line via outlook without having to click send

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