Prog to automatically email log files?

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#7873 17-May-2006 14:52

I need to automatically email some log files every day from a WinXP machine, preferably with a small program that can use my own smtp server (or xtras).

Anyone doing this or got a recommendation to make?

Thanks

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#35974 17-May-2006 14:54

write a simple batch file and schedule it to run using Windows Scheduler

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#35975 17-May-2006 14:56

example?

lets say i have

c:\abc.log

that i want to send to

bob@servername.com.nz

using smtp.xtra.co.nz

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#35977 17-May-2006 14:59

hrm... i might have to think about that. We do something similar with log files from our servers, but then they have IIS and exchange installed on them

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#35979 17-May-2006 15:23

Tony, i think this is exactly what you need.
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/email/geek-to-live-automatically-email-yourself-file-backups-168156.php

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#35980 17-May-2006 15:25

automailer from http://www.duodata.de/automailer/

works perfectly, scheduled polling of directories, automatically sending specified files (or masks - *.log or *.*), configurable smtp server, and to and from names + subject plus message body.

Can zip files before send if required, and also optionally delete a log after its sent.

and its freeware :-)

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#35982 17-May-2006 15:29

Or your way could be easier