I'm running Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. I have a batch file that runs on demand. I want to have an email sent every time the batch file runs. The email is simple, just a sentence indicating that the batch file ran; it is the same every time.
I've tried a couple of things to get this done. I thought of telnet, but I can't figure out how to redirect a set of commands into telnet; Windows batch files don't have a Unix-style "here document," and calling "telnet <scriptfile"
where scriptfile contains the commands to send an email didn't work. I also found a couple of solutions on the internet using CDO.Message, but I've never used that before and I kept getting error messages that I don't understand.
How can I send a simple email from a Windows batch file?
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If you can't follow Max's suggestion of installing Blat (or any other utility) on your server, then perhaps your server already has software installed that can send emails.
I know that both Oracle and SqlServer have the capability to send email. You might have to work with your DBA to get that feature enabled and/or get the privilege to use it. Of course I can see how that might present its own set of problems and red tape. Assuming you can access the feature, it is fairly simple to have a batch file login to a database and send mail.
A batch file can easily run a VBScript via CSCRIPT. A quick google search finds many links showing how to send email with VBScript. The first one I happened to look at was http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adminscripts/enterprise/mail/. It looks straight forward.
$emailSmtpServerPort = "587"
$emailSmtpUser = "username"
$emailSmtpPass = 'password'
$emailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$emailMessage.From = "[From email address]"
$emailMessage.To.Add( "[Send to email address]" )
$emailMessage.Subject = "Testing e-mail"
$emailMessage.IsBodyHtml = $true
$emailMessage.Body = @"
<p>Here is a message that is <strong>HTML formatted</strong>.</p>
<p>From your friendly neighborhood IT guy</p>
"@
$SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient( $emailSmtpServer , $emailSmtpServerPort )
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential( $emailSmtpUser , $emailSmtpPass );
$SMTPClient.Send( $emailMessage )
If PowerShell is available, the Send-MailMessage commandlet is a single one-line command that could easily be called from a batch file to handle email notifications. Below is a sample of the line you would include in your batch file to call the PowerShell script (the %xVariable%
is a variable you might want to pass from your batch file to the PowerShell script):
--[BATCH FILE]--
:: ...your code here...
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -windowstyle hidden -command C:\MyScripts\EmailScript.ps1 %xVariable%
Below is an example of what you might include in your PowerShell script (you must include the PARAM line as the first non-remark line in your script if you included passing the %xVariable%
from your batch file:
--[POWERSHELL SCRIPT]--
Param([String]$xVariable)
# ...your code here...
$smtp = "smtp.[emaildomain].com"
$to = "[Send to email address]"
$from = "[From email address]"
$subject = "[Subject]"
$body = "[Text you want to include----the <br> is a line feed: <br> <br>]"
$body += "[This could be a second line of text]" + "<br> "
$attachment="[file name if you would like to include an attachment]"
send-MailMessage -SmtpServer $smtp -To $to -From $from -Subject $subject -Body $body -BodyAsHtml -Attachment $attachment -Priority high
It works for me, by using double quotes around variables.
I am using batch script to call powershell Send-MailMessage
Batch Script:send_email.bat
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -command 'E:\path\send_email.ps1
Pwershell Script send_email.ps1
Send-MailMessage -From "noreply@$env:computername" -To '<[email protected]>' -Subject 'Blah Blah' -SmtpServer 'smtp.domain.com' -Attachments 'E:\path\file.log' -BODY "Blah Blah on Host: $env:computername "
I've used Blat ( http://www.blat.net/ ) for many years. It's a simple command line utility that can send email from command line. It's free and opensource.
You can use command like "Blat myfile.txt -to [email protected] -server smtp.domain.com -port 6000"
Here is some other software you can try to send email from command line (I've never used them):
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
http://www.petri.co.il/sendmail.htm
http://www.petri.co.il/software/mailsend105.zip
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm
Here ( http://www.petri.co.il/send_mail_from_script.htm ) you can find other various way of sending email from a VBS script, plus link to some of the mentioned software
The following VBScript code is taken from that page
Set objEmail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objEmail.From = "[email protected]"
objEmail.To = "[email protected]"
objEmail.Subject = "Server is down!"
objEmail.Textbody = "Server100 is no longer accessible over the network."
objEmail.Send
Save the file as something.vbs
Set Msg = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
With Msg
.To = "[email protected]"
.From = "[email protected]"
.Subject = "Hello"
.TextBody = "Just wanted to say hi."
.Send
End With
Save the file as something2.vbs
I think these VBS scripts use the windows default mail server, if present. I've not tested these scripts...
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