send mail through Rexx?

[blizz15]

Hi everybody,

Currently I am working on porting some Rexx code from old OS/2 to Windows. I am working on this one file in which I have to email a report to a few people. in OS/2 the following was used:

'sendmail -t -af ' MsgFile

I learned that I have to use Blat to do the same thing in windows. This is what I tried: (Assuming MsgFile would replace "mytext.txt&quot.

call blat.exe "mytext.txt" -s "Testing email-day-ssfs" -t 'theblizz15@yahoo.com'

I used my email address just to see if it works. However Rexx is yelling at me on that statement. It is referring to a bad arithmetic expression there. I have tried many combinations. Does anyone have any ideas how to invoke the blast.exe correctly?

 

[rexxhead]

I'm MVS, not Windows, so this may be all wet:

REXX may be seeing the '-s' and '-t' as subtractions. I suggest you compose the parameter string for the exe as

parm = "mytext.txt -s 'Testing ...' -t theblizz..."

(Note that the outer quotes are doublequotes and the inner are apostrophes.) Now you can

call blat.exec parm

Frank Clarke
Tampa Area REXX Programmers' Alliance
REXX Language Assn Listmaster

 

[blizz15]

Thanks I think that worked