VBScript to send email without running Outlook

Question

I have written an automated test that runs each night, and I would like to email the results each night once the test is finished.

In order to do this I attempted to put the following at the end of my batchfile:

Set MyApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set MyItem = MyApp.CreateItem(0)
With MyItem
    .To = "a@a.com"
    .Subject = "Subject"
    .ReadReceiptRequested = False
    .HTMLBody = "resport"
End With
MyItem.Send

However, this is causing the email to not send because my Outlook is not open, as the test is run in the background, and I have no access to the UI.

Is there anyway to send this email without actually running outlook on the machine.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can send email without Outlook in VBScript using the CDO.Message object. You will need to know the address of your SMTP server to use this:

Set MyEmail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")

MyEmail.Subject="Subject"
MyEmail.From="name@domain.com"
MyEmail.To="a@a.com"
MyEmail.TextBody="Testing one two three."

MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing")=2

'SMTP Server
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver")="smtp.server.com"

'SMTP Port
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport")=25 

MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update
MyEmail.Send

set MyEmail=nothing

If your SMTP server requires a username and password then paste these lines in above the MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update line:

'SMTP Auth (For Windows Auth set this to 2)
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate")=1
'Username
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername")="username" 
'Password
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword")="password"

More information on using CDO to send email with VBScript can be found on the link below: http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cdo.htm

Answer 2

Yes. Blat or any other self contained SMTP mailer. Blat is a fairly full featured SMTP client that runs from command line

Blat is here