Sending and Receiving E-mail in Script Files

Robo-FTP is e-mail enabled. E-mail messages are composed and sent within a script using the CREATEMAIL and SENDMAIL script commands. E-mail messages are received using the GETMAIL command.

Robo-FTP also supports the MAILTO command where an e-mail message may be formatted under script control and then submitted to the system default e-mail client to be sent manually.

The remainder of this section deals with the three former commands.

For Robo-FTP e-mail to work, the PC must have an established network connection. To send e-mail, the PC must have access to an SMTP server. To receive e-mail, the PC must have access to a POP3 server. In both cases, the FTP site name or IP address and any appropriate log on ID and password must be known when the script runs.

These commands work independently of any e-mail client that you may have installed on your PC. When receiving messages, Robo-FTP can simply get the next message available on the FTP site or search the subject line of all pending messages for a specific string and only get this one message.

Messages received may be viewed and/or saved to a file. Optionally, messages may be left on the FTP site. The subject line of the message is saved in a script variable for additional processing during script execution if necessary.

Listed below are some examples of how e-mail functionality may be utilized in Robo-FTP scripts:

Refer to CREATEMAIL, SENDMAIL, and GETMAIL for more details.

See MAILTO for the creation and submission of e-mail messages to be sent manually.