sending email at the end of a script without Java

Hello!

I have written a script to set up the command sendmail, and it works flawlessly... When the Java machine is running.

In my setting, I usually connect via ssh to my office computer and launch heavy code to be computed, so I need a script that notifies me whenever the program stops running and the results are produced. At the same time, I can't stay linked to that computer for all the computing time it takes to finish running, so I need to launch a background Matlab instance (using screen) so that it doesn't get terminated when I log out.

aaand sendmail needs the java machine running, something I cannot have since I work on background.

Is there another command to achieve this?

[Jonas]

maybe u can use the url command to create a mailto link with receiver and mail body and opening the defaul mail program this way, followed by a matlab robot to press ctrl+enter which in many programs sends the email

[Adam Danz]

@Jonas, wouldn't the robot also use Java?

@Giovanni Barbarino I also use matlab's sendmail when waiting for remote analysis computers to tell me they are done or when an error occured but when I log out of the VPN software, the computers and Matlab keep going so I haven't had the problem you described. Keep in mind that sendmail only works in local matlab clients.

[Jonas]

hm, you are right. maybe we could call an autoHotkey script instead of using the java robot

[Jonas]

i think it would also be possible to send an email programmatically via thunderbird using the command line

[Adam Danz]

On Windows systems with Microsoft Outlook, you can send email directly through Outlook by accessing the COM server with actxserver.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/94446