Generate draft email in Outlook with shell script.

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

Is there any way to create a draft mail with HTML body in Outlook using Shell script.

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If by shell script you mean VBS script, then probably. Yes, you can install Cygwin, and that does allow you to do some shell scripting. But if you are running something on a Windows machine, then you should probably use a Windows tool like the Visual Basic Scripting (VBS) tool. You can probably also create and send HTML emails just using Perl and the MIME::Lite libraries. But if you do that you don't need Outlook and it doesn't matter what client or email system someone uses when they receive the email.

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This is quite easy to achieve using powershell:

$ol = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application 
$ns = $ol.GetNameSpace("MAPI")

$Mail = $ol.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.Recipients.Add("to_person@domain.com")  
$Mail.Subject = "Testing email created from powershell"  
$Mail.HTMLBody = "<HTML><H2 style=""FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, Sans-serif;"">My HTML email.</H2><BODY>My body.</BODY></HTML>"
$Mail.save()
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