sending mail from Batch file

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We have a script to backup files. After the backup operation is over, we would like to send a report as an email notification to some of our email addresses.

How could this be done?

I'm confused. He's asking how to send email from a batch file. How is that not a programming question? — RossFabricant, Apr 02 '09 at 13:16
Why not use the task scheduler? Afaik it can do such a thing. — Joey, Apr 02 '09 at 13:50
@Johannes: You should write that as an answer, it deserves some vote. — Dirk Vollmar, Apr 02 '09 at 14:08
@divo: I would imagine it was flagged offensive before you edited out the plzsendtehcodez part. — Jon B, Apr 02 '09 at 14:13

score 38 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '09 at 13:42

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Blat:

blat -to user@example.com -server smtp.example.com -f batch_script@example.com -subject "subject" -body "body"

answered Apr 02 '09 at 13:42

Colin Pickard

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if you want to send emails to multiple addresses then use command like this blat -to "user1@example.com","user2@example.com" – Sam B Aug 10 '20 at 14:59

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '09 at 21:42

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You can also use a Power Shell script:

$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient("mail.example.com")

if( $Env:SmtpUseCredentials -eq "true" ) {
    $credentials = new-object Net.NetworkCredential("username","password")
    $smtp.Credentials = $credentials
}
$objMailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$objMailMessage.From = "script@mycompany.com"
$objMailMessage.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com")
$objMailMessage.Subject = "eMail subject Notification"
$objMailMessage.Body = "Hello world!"

$smtp.send($objMailMessage)

answered Apr 29 '09 at 21:42

Philibert Perusse

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upvoted. But if you don't want to make a `.ps1`, [you can call it straight from batch](http://stackoverflow.com/a/38604180/2518317) – Hashbrown Jul 27 '16 at 05:11
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The question was about BATCH, not powershell. Poweshell supports only W7 and later – Denys Vitali Nov 01 '16 at 22:21

Hashbrown · Answer 3 · 2016-08-02T11:19:13.100

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PowerShell comes with a built in command for it. So running directly from a .bat file:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -Command Send-MailMessage ^
    -SmtpServer server.address.name ^
    -To someone@what.ever ^
    -From noreply@possibly.fake ^
    -Subject Testing ^
    -Body 123

_{NB -ExecutionPolicy ByPass is only needed if you haven't set up permissions for running PS from CMD}

_{Also for those looking to call it from within powershell, drop everything before -Command [inclusive], and ` will be your escape character (not ^)}

edited Aug 02 '16 at 11:19

answered Jul 27 '16 at 05:10

Hashbrown

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As a side note don't forget that when you run something like `powershell -Command Send-MailMessage...` it needs to be ran with surrounding double quotes and single quotes such as `powershell -Command "Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer 'server.address.name' -To 'someone@what.ever' -From 'noreply@possibly.fake' -Subject 'This is a test' -Body 'BLAH BLAH BLAH'"` – Arvo Bowen Mar 21 '18 at 20:52
the above worked fine for me, does yours not work without them? Is it because you use have spaces in the subject and require single quotes? – Hashbrown Mar 23 '18 at 07:18
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Possibly, but I could not get it to work without the double quotes for me. I ran across the suggestion from others experiencing the same problem. Figured I would share incase someone else hit the same wall. Even so usually all my Subjects and Bodies in my emails contain spaces. ;) - Side note, maybe it has to do with the fact my command is all on one line as opposed to yours the is multiline? – Arvo Bowen Mar 23 '18 at 13:38

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 19 '13 at 09:15

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bmail. Just install the EXE and run a line like this:

bmail -s myMailServer -f Sender@foo.com -t receiver@foo.com -a "Production Release Performed"

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answered Apr 02 '09 at 13:12

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Here I cant install bamil as per security purpose. plz tell me is there any alernate way to solve my problem. – user73628 Apr 02 '09 at 13:40
Have you tried with other command-line email clients? A Google search lists quite many freely available tools. – Dirk Vollmar Apr 02 '09 at 13:43

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 02 '09 at 15:10

We use blat to do this all the time in our environment. I use it as well to connect to Gmail with Stunnel. Here's the params to send a file

blat -to user@example.com -server smtp.example.com -f batch_script@example.com -subject "subject" -body "body" -attach c:\temp\file.txt

Or you can put that file in as the body

blat c:\temp\file.txt -to user@example.com -server smtp.example.com -f batch_script@example.com -subject "subject"

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 05 '15 at 21:48

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There are multiple methods for handling this problem.

My advice is to use the powerful Windows freeware console application SendEmail.

sendEmail.exe -f sender.from@mail.com -o message-file=body.txt -u subject message -t to.email.address@mail.com -a attachment.zip -s smtp.gmail.com:446 -xu gmail.login -xp gmail.password

edited Sep 05 '15 at 21:48

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