How to send a simple email from a Windows batch file

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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  lt 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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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   lt target email example com gt   -Subject  Blah Blah  -SmtpServer   smtp domain com   -Attachments  E  path file log  -BODY  Blah Blah on Host   env computername

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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       lt p gt Here is a message that is  lt strong gt HTML formatted lt  strong gt   lt  p gt   lt p gt From your friendly neighborhood IT guy lt  p gt      SMTPClient   New-Object System Net Mail SmtpClient   emailSmtpServer    emailSmtpServerPort    SMTPClient EnableSsl    true  SMTPClient Credentials   New-Object System Net NetworkCredential   emailSmtpUser    emailSmtpPass     SMTPClient Send   emailMessage

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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

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Max is on he right track with the suggestion to use Windows Scripting for a way to do it without installing any additional executables on the machine  His code will work if you have the IIS SMTP service setup to forward outbound email using the  smart host  setting  or the machine also happens to be running Microsoft Exchange  Otherwise if this is not configured  you will find your emails just piling up in the message queue folder   inetpub mailroot queue   So  unless you can configure this service  you also want to be able to specify the email server you want to use to send the message with  To do that  you can do something like this in your windows script file   Set objMail   CreateObject  CDO Message   Set objConf   CreateObject  CDO Configuration   Set objFlds   objConf Fields objFlds Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration sendusing     2  cdoSendUsingPort objFlds Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration smtpserver      smtp your-site-url com   your smtp server domain or IP address goes here objFlds Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration smtpserverport     25  default port for email  uncomment next three lines if you need to use SMTP Authorization  objFlds Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration sendusername      your-username   objFlds Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration sendpassword      your-password   objFlds Item  http   schemas microsoft com cdo configuration smtpauthenticate     1  cdoBasic objFlds Update objMail Configuration   objConf objMail FromName    Your Name  objMail From    your address com  objMail To    destination address com  objMail Subject    Email Subject Text  objMail TextBody    The message of the email     objMail Send Set objFlds   Nothing Set objConf   Nothing Set objMail   Nothing

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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 fee fi com -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    me mydomain com  objEmail To    you yourdomain com  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    you yourdomain com    From    me mydomain com    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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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  lt br gt  is a line feed   lt br gt   lt br gt         body      This could be a second line of text       lt br gt      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

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