Batch sending an email - email

Question

I am making a program using batch and upon a crash or an error it will make a text file called debug.txt. I need to know if there is a way of emailing this file automatically using batch to the following email address "something#example.com". debug.txt is in the same location as the batch file. Does anyone know a code I could use. It must not have any extra softwere.

Answer 1

I see 3 options for you as of now:
1. The bottom line is there's no built-in way in batch, but there are third-party tools like blat etc. that can be called from a batch file, but as you have mentioned you don't want any extra software.
2. You can enable the installed SMTP Server of Windows. And then run a Powershell script:
$smtpServer = "system.abc.com"
$smtpFrom = "dontreply#abc.com"
$smtpTo = "something#abc.com"
$messageSubject = "Put your subject here"
$message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $smtpfrom, $smtpto
$message.Subject = $messageSubject
$message.IsBodyHTML = $true
$message.Body = Get-Content debug.txt
$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($message)
3. You can enable the installed SMTP Server of Windows. And then run a VBScript:
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Const ForAppending = 8
Const FileToBeUsed = "debug.txt"
Dim objCDO1
Dim fso, f
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(FileToBeUsed, ForReading)
Set objCDO1 = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objCDO1.Textbody = f.ReadAll
f.Close
objCDO1.TO ="something#abc.com"
objCDO1.From = "dontreply#abc.com"
objCDO1.Subject = "Put your subject here"
objCDO1.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration /sendusing") = 2
objCDO1.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration /smtpserver") = "system.abc.com"
objCDO1.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration /smtpserverport") = 25
objCDO1.Configuration.Fields.Update
objCDO1.Send
Set f = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
As you have mentioned that you are using Windows 7 ultimate so both option 2 and 3 will work on your system very well.

Answer 2

You can use free tool like sendemail.exe http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/. Download and copy sendemail.exe to system path. This is only for simple internal SMTP messages. This cannot be used to send external messages unless your Exchange server is setup to send anonymous external messages. Almost all Exchange servers are not setup to do this.
You can use this simple routine in the batch script.
CALL:SENDEMAILALERT "From SMTP address" "To SMTP addresses" "Subject" "Message" "File to attach" "smtp.host.com:25"
:SENDEMAILALERT
SET SENDEMAILCMD=-f "%~1"
SET SENDEMAILCMD=%SENDEMAILCMD% -t "%~2"
SET SENDEMAILCMD=%SENDEMAILCMD% -u "%~3"
SET SENDEMAILCMD=%SENDEMAILCMD% -m "%~4"
SET SENDEMAILCMD=%SENDEMAILCMD% -a "%~5"
SET SENDEMAILCMD=%SENDEMAILCMD% -s "%~6"
SENDEMAIL %SENDEMAILCMD% >NUL 2>&1
SET SENDEMAILCMD=
GOTO:EOF