Purpose

 

This example demonstrates how to send a single attachment.

 

NOTE: You should change the email addresses in the downloadable batch file to your own email address(es) before running a test. Using your own email addresses is the easiest test case. 

 

Prepared Example Files

 

 

The archive contains two files:

 

• SingleAttachment.bat - The batch file that will instruct NetMailBot to send the email message.
• attach1.txt - An empty text file to attach.

 

Batch File Contents

 

This is the content of the batch file:

 

netmailbot.exe -to test@exclamationsoft.com -from test@exclamationsoft.com -logfile "c:\tmp\log.txt" -server localhost -attachment "attach1.txt" 

 

Steps

 

1. Unzip the SingleAttachment.zip file. This will produce a directory called "SingleAttachment". Open this directory.
2. Open Notepad and edit the batch file "SingleAttachment.bat". Note these important parameters used in the batch file:

 

• Change the parameters: -to test@exclamationsoft.com -from test@exclamationsoft.com to your own email address. 
• Change the parameter: -server localhost to your own mail server.

• The parameter -attachment "attach1.txt" instructs NetMailBot to atttach the file "attach1.txt".

 

NOTE: You must use quotation marks around the filename specified in the -attachment parameter, as shown above.

 

3. Invoke the batch file by double-clicking the icon or straight from the command line.
4. Check your email account Inbox for an email containing a single attachment named "attach1.txt".