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@ShadowThief: Thanks. Worked (and I have a better understanding of how to get to the different outputs)

What does the 2 > &1 actually do? 2 refers to stderr ("standard error"), which is an output stream that things write errors to if they've been coded correctly > is a redirection operator for moving the contents of output streams somewhere else & in this particular instance is an indicator that the ...

You are just trying to find out if text is present in the file? Why not something as simple as: type "%programfiles(x86)%\sendEmail\sendemail.log" |findstr /c:"Email was sent successfully!" >nul 2>&1 if %errorlevel% EQU 0 ( echo do something if found ) else ( echo do something if not found ) Replac...

I have what should be a simple solution. I have a text file called sendemail.log with the following text in it Apr 06 13:28:37 acb-pc sendEmail.exe[2452]: Email was sent successfully! From: <xxx@yyy.net> To: <zzz@aaa.com> Subject: [This is the subject] Server: [smtp.yyyy.net:99] I need to search for...

I know I was not going senile

I just realised that the approval by the admin resulted in the flow not appearing to be logical.

Hi, I have been using sendemail for over 10 years and it is a nifty free utility that is great when you want a process to send an email. Today you normally need to combine it with a utility that handles the encryption aspects of the communication. I use STunnel for that. -f is an issue only if the p...

The problem was related to the evaluation of the variables. SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion resolved the issue and using ! rather than % . It controls when a variable is expanded (at the beginning or when it is used). the modified code reads as follows SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion REM Parameters:...

I have a batchfile that will assemble a command line passed on passed parameters. REM Parameters: REM To (required) REM To (Optional) - NA to indicate empty REM Subject (required) REM Message (required) REM AttachFile1 (optional) - NA to indicate empty REM AttachFile2 (optional) - NA to indicate emp...