DOS e-mail client to send attachment from command line?

[Farrier]

Thursday morning 1 February 2001

Hi.

Can anyone recommend a simple program to send an e-mail with a file
attachment from within a batch file. It would help if the program could
do the connection, logon, and send the e-mail. It will be for
non-computer literate users. This will be done on 2 machines: 1 with
ms-dos 6.22; 1 with DR-DOS 7.3. It would be nice if the program was
freeware. It would also be nice if I could also test/use the same
program on my Win95 machine.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Joe

[Howard Eisenberger]

Farrier <jcu...@network-one.com> wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a simple program to send an e-mail with a file
> attachment from within a batch file. It would help if the program could
> do the connection, logon, and send the e-mail. It will be for
> non-computer literate users. This will be done on 2 machines: 1 with
> ms-dos 6.22; 1 with DR-DOS 7.3. It would be nice if the program was
> freeware.

There are lots of ways you could do this. Basically there are three
steps or programs:
1. A mailreader to create the message.
2. A packet driver/dialer to make the SLIP/PPP connection.
3. A SMTP mailer to send the message.

For one example, you might want to have a look at
<URL:http://members.kingston.net/lewis/nmo-e03.exe>.
This package contains a simple mailreader (Olim), the dospppd
packet driver, and NetMail SMTP/POP client.

> It would also be nice if I could also test/use the same
> program on my Win95 machine.

You should be able to boot to DOS, but if you have a Winmodem
it won't work.

Howard E.

--
DOS TCP/IP * <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html>

[Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen]

Well, Arachne has a full featured e-mail client with MIME built inside and
is freeware for privat use, but this seems not to be what you're looking
for? Maybe someone in "comp.os.msdos.mail-news" can give you a better
advice...

http://browser.arachne.cz/dos/ is the download site for Arachne, by the
way.

ZZee ya, Hans-Juergen
--

[Farrier]

Howard Eisenberger wrote:

>
> There are lots of ways you could do this. Basically there are three
> steps or programs:
> 1. A mailreader to create the message.
> 2. A packet driver/dialer to make the SLIP/PPP connection.
> 3. A SMTP mailer to send the message.
>
> For one example, you might want to have a look at
> <URL:http://members.kingston.net/lewis/nmo-e03.exe>.
> This package contains a simple mailreader (Olim), the dospppd
> packet driver, and NetMail SMTP/POP client.
>
> > It would also be nice if I could also test/use the same
> > program on my Win95 machine.
>
> You should be able to boot to DOS, but if you have a Winmodem
> it won't work.
>
> Howard E.
>
> --
> DOS TCP/IP * <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html>

Thanks, Howard. I'll give it a try!

Joe