Send mail from a Windows script

Question

I would like to send mail from a script on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. I think the server setup is pretty much out of the box.

The mail server is an Exch

Answer 1

If you have outlook/exchange installed you should be able to use CDONTs, just create a mail.vbs file and call it in a batch file like so (amusing they are in the same dir)

wscript mail.vbs

for the VBScript code check out

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197920

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp

forget the fact they the two links speak about ASP, it should work fine as a stand alone script with out iis.