email from windows platform

[Bryan Goldader]

I am trying to email error encounters from either an Xlate or Tcl script out of an Xlate from cloverleaf running on a windows platform.

I have searched through and nothing really stuck out.

thanks in advance.

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[Jim Kosloskey]

What platform – unix or windows?

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[bill bearden]

Bryan,

Because people had different ideas at different times, we have used 3 different methods for sending email in Cloverleaf programs. Two are executable Windows programs: bmail.exe and POSTIE.EXE. We “exec” these in Tcl code. I wasn’t around at the time so I don’t know much about where those programs came from.

More recently, we have also used an all-Tcl method for sending email. Tcl comes with libraries for email (and lots of other things). The very basics look something like this:

Code:

 package require smtp
 package require mime
 set token [mime::initialize -canonical text/plain -string “Email body here.”]
 mime::setheader $token Subject “Your Subject Here”
 mime::setheader $token To “Firstname Lastname ”
 mime::setheader $token From “servername@company.com”
 smtp::sendmessage $token
   -recipients “firstname.lastname@company.com”
   -servers “emailServerNameHere”
   -originator “”
 mime::finalize $token
 unset token

The code above could have typos since I tried to simplify what we actually use. I also tried to give parameters that show what the format should be.

Bill

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