Send email from a batch script. Blat doesn't work

windows email batch-file smtp blat
GG. picture GG. · Oct 13, 2011 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

I need to send an email from a batch script. I tried several solutions without success.

For example, with Blat:

:send_mail
"\Program Files (x86)\blat275\full\blat.exe" 
    -server smtp.gmail.com
    -port 525
    -f [email protected]
    -to [email protected] 
    -s "hello"
    -body "world"

When I run the script, I just get a Windows crash:

A Win32 command line eMail tool stopped working

Does someone have a better solution?

EDIT & SOLUTION

I tried on our server (with our smtp) and it worked with Blat. See the full code in my answer below.

Answer

Kaelan Fouwels picture Kaelan Fouwels · Feb 6, 2013

Realize this is old, but for any googlers:

Blat will NOT work with gmail, as it requires an SSL connection to be accessed over SMTP, which blat doesn't (as of 06/02/2013) support

See here: http://www.jeffkastner.com/2010/01/blat-stunnel-and-gmail/ for a (slightly messy) workaround.

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