SENDING EMAIL FROM THE DESKTOP IN EUDORA
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Summary: With a very little code one can make a Desktop link that will let you edit a message and then automatically use an
Eudora Email Client, even Lite, to automatically send the message to the list.
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Suppose you have to send Emails to a list of people frequently. Let's automate it to one click from the desktop.
The file names are be
Code:
- Message.txt the message you wish to send
- ToList the list of email addresses you want to
send to, one per line, left justified
- SendEm.Bas a QuickBASIC program that can be easily
redone in any BASIC, or application BASIC
support, Active-X, and so forth.
1. Make a batch file to edit Message.Txt and then send it to everyone in file ToList.
Code:
@echo off
c:
cd \messages
start /w notpad Message.Txt
qbasic /r sendem
You may not have QBasic, look on any old DOS diskettes from 3.0 to 6.22, or, simply put it in a Basic of your choice. We have only used very primitive BASIC statements so it should not be hard.
The BASIC source:
Code:
DECLARE SUB waitsecs (secs!)
eudora$ =
"E:\wpr\eudora\eudora.exe "
Code:
' Space at end! ! !
SHELL eudora$: waitsecs 3
OPEN
"tolist"
Code:
FOR INPUT AS #1
DO WHILE NOT EOF(1)
LINE INPUT #1, a$: a$ = rtrim$(ltrim$(a$))
OPEN "HEADER" FOR OUTPUT AS #2
PRINT #2, "To: "; a$
PRINT #2,
CLOSE 2
SHELL "COPY header + message.txt message.msg > nul:"
waitsecs 1
SHELL eudora$ + curdir$ + "\message.msg":
waitsecs 5
Code:
PRINT "Sent to "; a$
LOOP
CLOSE
kill "header"
SYSTEM
SUB waitsecs (secs)
oldtim$ = TIME$
FOR i = 1 TO secs
WHILE TIME$ = oldtime$: WEND
oldtime$ = TIME$
NEXT
END SUB
Comments on items in
Bold:
You will have to change
"E:\wpr\eudora\eudora.exe " to point to wherever your Eudora.exe is.
tolist is just an ASCII file (text) of addresses to send to. They could be multiple.
Code:
j@roninsg.com
gw@whitehouse.gov
BillGates@dorsalOrifice.com
support@tek-tips.com, info@tek-tips.com, sales@tektips.com
. . .
waitsecs This is a dumb little loop that waits 'i' seconds.
Waiting is needed for Eudora to settle down and accept a message. The timings here are slow, and work on an old 233 mHz system.
We wait after launching Eudora, after COPYing, and after sending Eudora a message.
On your BASIC, if time returns hundredths it will wait 'i'/100 seconds, which won't be too good. In those cases it is better to use SLEEP if available, or a Timer, or, ...
Other notes:
You do not need a Subject but it is good to have one.
You may spoof
From:
Attachments are
X-Attachments:
as in
Code:
PRINT #2, "From "; myname$
PRINT #2, "Subject: "; theSubject$
PRINT #2, "X-Attachments: c:\autoexec.bat, c:\config.sys"
The Eudora documentation is at:
http://eudora.com/developers/
go to 'Command Line for Windows" about halfway down.
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