Reply To: wanting example tcl proc for sending alert info to emails

If you go on the Clovertech website and search for SMTP, you will find a post from John Harvey titled “working with email alerts” that gives you an example of the TCL proc you are looking for.  I expanded on his proc slightly by adding a “From Address” parameter… see sendEmailMessage proc below.

proc sendEmailMessage {fromaddr recipient email_server subject body} {

package require smtp

package require mime

set token [mime::initialize -canonical text/plain -string $body]

mime::setheader $token Subject $subject

smtp::sendmessage $token -recipients $recipient -servers

-debug 1 -originator $fromaddr

mime::finalize $token

  return

}

Here is the TCL proc that calls the sendEmailMessage proc.  I call this from within my .bat file using the command “call tcl -c censusAlert”.

proc censusAlert {} {

sendEmailMessage “DoNotReply@abc.com” “jdoe@abc.com” “10.1.5.123” “Quovadx Census Alert!” “Interface for Census is down!”

sendEmailMessage “DoNotReply@abc.com” “kbrown@abc.com” “10.1.5.123” “Quovadx Census Alert!” “Interface for Census is down!”

}

You need to have tcllib installed in order to use the API to send email.  You can find the download and instructions at

<a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcllib/&#8221; class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcllib/

It took me a little while to get all this installed and working but it’s a great tool now.