sendmail
Send email message to address list
Syntax
sendmail(recipients,subject)
sendmail(recipients,subject,message)
sendmail(recipients,subject,message,attachments)
Description
sendmail(recipients,subject)
sends email to
recipients
with the specified
subject
. For a single recipient, specify
recipients
as a character vector or a string. For
multiple recipients, specify recipients
as a cell array
of character vectors or a string array. subject
must be a
character vector or string.
sendmail(recipients,subject,message)
includes the
specified message
. If message
is a
character vector or a string, sendmail
automatically
wraps text at 75 characters. To force a line break in the message text, use
10
, as shown in the Examples. If
message
is a cell array of character vectors or a
string array, then each element represents a new line of text.
sendmail(recipients,subject,message,attachments)
attaches the files listed in the attachments
input
argument. attachments
can be a character vector, cell
array of character vectors, or string array.
Examples
Send a message with two attachments to a hypothetical email address:
sendmail('user@otherdomain.com',... 'Test subject','Test message',... {'folder/attach1.html','attach2.doc'});
Send a message with forced line breaks (using 10
)
to a hypothetical email address:
sendmail('user@otherdomain.com','New subject', ... ['Line1 of message' 10 'Line2 of message' 10 ... 'Line3 of message' 10 'Line4 of message']);
The resulting message is:
Line1 of message Line2 of message Line3 of message Line4 of message
Tips
The
sendmail
function does not support HTML-formatted messages. However, you can send HTML files as attachments.If
sendmail
cannot determine your email address or outgoing SMTP mail server from your system registry, specify those settings using thesetpref
function. For example:setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','my_server.example.com'); setpref('Internet','E_mail','my_email@example.com');
To identify the SMTP server for the call to
setpref
, check the preferences for your electronic mail application, or consult your email system administrator. If you cannot easily determine the server name, try'mail'
, which is a common default, such as:setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','mail');
By default, the
sendmail
function does not support email servers that require authentication. To support these servers, change your system settings and set preferences for the SMTP user name and password, with commands in the following form:props = java.lang.System.getProperties; props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true'); setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username','myaddress@example.com'); setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password','mypassword');
To override the default character encoding, set the preference for email character encoding as follows:
wheresetpref('Internet','E_mail_Charset',encoding);
encoding
is a character vector specifying the character encoding, such as'SJIS'
.
Alternatives
On Windows® systems with Microsoft®
Outlook®, you can send email directly through Outlook by accessing the COM server with actxserver
. For an example, see Solution 1-RTY6J.