CREATEMAIL Create an e-mail message |
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This command builds an e-mail message to be sent using the SENDMAIL command. The recipient of a message is specified in the SENDMAIL command.
All of the arguments to this command are required; however the [ from name ], [ subj ], and [ attach ] arguments may be empty strings.
The [ body ] variable provides for a simple message body. The message body cannot be longer than 2040 characters. Use an attachment file to send larger messages.
Carriage control within the message body (i.e., a \n to insert a line feed in the message and a \r to insert a carriage return) is permitted unless the /nocrlf option is specified. Use of the option /nocrlf suppresses the recognition of the \n and \r sequences. This is useful if you are e-mailing file names in the message body that may include either of these two sequences. When using the /nocrlf option the %crlf internal variable is still available for adding line breaks to your email body text.
Consider the following example where an e-mail message is created with an attachment.
SET from = "Acme Widget Co. Sales" SET email = "[email protected]" SET subj = "Thanks for your order!" SET body = "An invoice is attached" SET attach = "c:\sales\customer.inv" CREATEMAIL from email subj body attach
The following example results in a message without an attachment.
SET from = "Acme Widget Co. Sales" SET email = "[email protected]" SET subj = "Thanks for your order!" SET body = "We appreciate your business." CREATEMAIL from email subj body ""
The following example results in a two line message body.
SET body = "Line 1.\r\nLine 2."
Important In order to cut down on spam, some mail servers now require that the email address in the FROM line match an existing mailbox on the server. If your mail server returns an error when you call the SENDMAIL command, please check the FROM email address.
Related Command(s): SENDMAIL, GETMAIL, MAILTO See also: %crlf
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