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Purpose:Send an email message.

 

Format:SENDMAIL [/A file1 [/A file2 ...]  /D /Eaddress /H"header: value" /In /M /Pn /R /Sn /V] "address[,address...] [cc:address[,address] bcc:address[,address...]]" subject [ text | @msgfile ]

 

file1...

The attachment files

address

The destination email address

subject

The subject line

text

The message to send

msgfile

The file containing the message body

 

/A file

Attachment

/M

CRAM-MD5 authentication

/D

Delivery Confirmation

/Pn

Priority

/E

Reply-to address

/R

Send read receipt

/H

Send custom header

/Sn

Sensitivity

/In

Importance

/V

Verbose

 

See also:  SNPP and SMPP.

 

Usage:

 

SENDMAIL sends an email message from TCC via SMTP. The text of the message can be entered either on the command line or read from a text file.

 

Before you can use SENDMAIL, you must either set the SMTP configuration options, or have a default account in the registry. Depending on your system configuration, you may also need to start an Internet connection before you use SENDMAIL.

 

A SENDMAIL message has three required parts: an address, a subject, and message. Optionally it may also have attachments.

 

       1. The address field contains one or more standard Internet email addresses:

 

       sendmail abc@xyz.com ...

 

If address contains white space, the entire address field must be surrounded by quotes. You can specify multiple destinations by separating the addresses with commas and enclosing the entire string in quotes (all addresses will appear in the "To:" header sent to all recipients). You can add CC (copy) addresses by prefacing the desired target(s) with cc:; and BCC (blind copy) addresses by prefacing the desired target(s) with bcc:. For example:

 

       sendmail "bob@bob.com bcc:joe@joe.com" Test Hello!

 

will send the text Hello! with subject Test to bob@bob.com with a blind copy to joe@joe.com.

 

       2. The subject will appear as the subject line in the message. If it contains white space, it must be surrounded by quotes.

 

       3. The message may either be entered on the command line, or it may be placed in a text file. To tell SENDMAIL to send the contents of a file as the message text, use @ sign, followed by the filename. You can use the same approach to send the text content of the clipboard (@CLIP:) or the console (@CON:):

 

sendmail abc@xyz.com Party @c:\messages\invitation.txt

sendmail abc@xyz.com Party @clip:

type myfile.txt | sendmail abc@xyz.com Party @con:

 

Options:

 

/A fileAttach file to the email message. The /A switch and the name of the file to attach must appear before address. Any file name that contains spaces or special characters must be quoted. You can send multiple files by repeating the /A switch for each additional file to send. For example:

 

sendmail /a file1 /a "d:\path\My file2" abc@xyz.com ...

 

/DRequest Delivery Notification.

 

/ESet the "reply to" address in the message header.

 

/HSet a custom header.  The header will be appended to the message headers created from "to", "from", "subject", etc.  The headers must of the format "header: value" as specified in RFC 822.  You can specify multiple headers with multiple /H arguments.

 

/InSet the Importance where n is:

 

1High
2Normal (default)
3Low

 

/MUse CRAM-MD5 authentication.

 

/PnSet the Priority where n is:

 

0Unspecified (default)
1Normal
2Urgent
3Non Urgent

 

/R(Read receipt) : Send a read receipt.

 

/SnSet the message sensitivity.  The values are:

 

1Personal
2Private
3CompanyConfidential

 

/VShow all the interaction with the server, except the message header and message body text.

 

Topic "sendmail.htm" last edited 5/12/2008. ©2008  JP Software, Inc.
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