Sending outlook express messages at preprogrammed intervals

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:19 pm

Can I setup outlook express to send some message at preprogrammed intervals.
Lets say, to send the same message to the same address every hour

Thanks

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:26 pm

Using a batch script, and a scheduler......yes.
If your email is a fairly simple text email.

http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpres ... 082205.htm

and http://www.splinterware.com/download/index.htm

Probably not your cup of tea though Gort9k.

Give that first link a good read over, and if you need some help with the batch script, let me know and provide me with the receiving email address, message etc (via PM if you like) and I'll see what I can do for you.

The scheduler program will make it easy to schedule every hour, have a look at it too.

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:25 am

Hi, norm:

I'm sorry for taking quite a while in thanking you for your tip. I've been away some days.

I'll explain what I'm trying to do:

I want to remotely connect to a computer with a dynamic IP address. And I recklon the easiest way to do it is to recover the IP from an outlook express message. So, the message I want to send is just a blank one. As all I'm interested in is the sender IP.

I'll have a look at the two pages suggested by you.

Thanks

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:19 am

Well:

After having a look a that page, about how to create an outlook express message from a command line. I've managed to do so. It is really easy.

But (there should be a but, of course), after creating a message, all that I get is a popup from outlook that waits till I press the send button.

What I need is to get the email sent with no further action.

I such a way I could use the windows scheduler.