Emailing Text File Automatically

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Does anyone know how I can email a text file using Win XP by NOT using
Outlook or Express?
 
ibeetb said:
Does anyone know how I can email a text file using Win XP by NOT using
Outlook or Express?
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Eudora? Netscape? Mozilla? Pegasus?

You MUST have a mail client to send mail!
 
If for example you're with AOL, click on the "Write" icon, top left of screen - between Read and IM
Then "Do your thing".
 
Sorry I wasn't more .....specfic. I do know how to email, of course....but I
need to send this .....without user intervention say at......12 Midnight on
a sunday. I need specific code to do this.....just wanted someone to point
me in the right direction
 
Hi,

What you need is a SMTP mailer utility.
I have used the following Freeware program (Blat) - see
link below:

http://pages.infinit.net/che/blat/blat.html

You can create a simple batch file to execute blat and
some command line parameters and then schedule this using
windows Task Manager.

Good luck,

Tim
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If for example you're with AOL, click on the "Write"
Click to expand...
icon, top left of screen - between Read and IM.
 
If you have XP Pro, it comes with Internet Information Services, including the SMTP server. You can write a Visual Basic Script or EXE to send the e-mail, using the built in SMTP engine and Collaboration Data Objects (CDOSYS).
 
There are other ways to skin this problem, but if you have any
programming background, get Python (a terrific programming
environment/language, which is free) from www.python.org. It has the
necessary libraries and capablities to do this probably in just a few
lines of code. You then would use XP's scheduler to schedule the
operation at midnight. My recollection is that a program like this is
included the documentation as an example.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
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