Mailing file contents

vinothkumar · Post by **vinothkumar** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:21 pm

Hi,
I am creating a file at the end of my job. After it is created I want to send this file through e-mail. Instead of sending as attachments I want the file contents to come under my Email body. How can I do ? Please advise.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:29 pm

You'll have to "roll your own" for that, script something using your tool of choice - sendmail, mailx, blat, whatever is in use there that supports that option to "inline" your file.

JRodriguez · Post by **JRodriguez** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:50 pm

The body of the email notification activity don't allow parameters

But if you would like to used a server job then try below using DSSendMailTester utility:

The job design looks like this : Folder Stage --> Transformer --->Seq File

Read your file with a folder Stage, the content of the file will be in the "Record" column, in the transformer call utility DSSendMailTester( To address, From address, Subject line, Server name, Message body) as a derivation to a dummy or log column in the sequential file. Map the "Record" column to the Message body argument , rest of argument could be parameters

Let us know your results

vinothkumar · Post by **vinothkumar** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:28 pm

Yeah it is working.. Thanks a lot..

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:04 pm

Well, that's an interesting solution.

I would simply script something to run 'after job'. Or if I was going to use that routine, I would create a copy of it and name it something more appropriate: DSSendMailInline or some such. More... "future proof" that way I would think as well.

rsiem · Post by **rsiem** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:32 pm

I prefer to use mutt :

mutt -a attachment.ext -s subject user@domain.com </dev/null

easy as pie...

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:22 pm

True... they all suck but mutt sucks less.

Blat is just as easy.