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Sendmail with GMail

Joe Ercolino — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:58:24 -0400

Hi

I am trying to use the sendmail command with GMail. It is possible? What are the right default parameters configuration?

Thanks

Re: Sendmail with GMail

us — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:35:38 -0400

Joe Ercolino:
<SNIP hopefully not preparing to send out spam...

> It is possible?

well,

doc sendmail;

clearly states:
...
Note The sendmail function does not support e-mail servers
that require authentication.
...

now, as far as i know <gmail> does require authentication...

us

Re: Sendmail with GMail

Ashutosh Mishra — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:06:26 -0400

"Joe Ercolino" <joe_ercolino@hotmail.com> wrote in message <f8ctm0$7qd$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi
>
> I am trying to use the sendmail command with GMail. It is possible? What are the right default parameters configuration?
>
> Thanks

There is a slightly more convoluted way of being able to do this: Ofcourse this is for a windows system:

If you use Outlook, here is something that i used to do sometime back:
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function[]=sendingmail(mailid,attch1,subj,body)

outlook = actxserver('Outlook.Application');
email = outlook.CreateItem('olMailitem');

% Repeating for each address
email.Recipients.Add(mailid);
email.Subject = subj;
email.Body=body;
email.Attachments.Add(attch1);
%email.Attachments.Add(attch2);

% For read receipt
email.ReadReceiptRequested = false;

email.Send;
outlook.release ;
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In this:
mailid - string containing the recipient mail id:
attch1=pathto attachment file.
subj=string
body - string.

Now since gmail allows pop access, configure your outlook to use gmail as the default outgoing smtp server (look at their online help) and i think you should be able to send the email.

Hope this helps.

Re: Sendmail with GMail

Ashutosh Mishra — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:08:07 -0400

Re: Sendmail with GMail

Ashutosh Mishra — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:09:51 -0400

Re: Sendmail with GMail

Ashutosh Mishra — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:19:39 -0400

My apologies for so many multiple posts.

Re: Sendmail with GMail

Matthew Simoneau — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:49:34 -0400

This isn't yet officially supported, but here is some code that will work in recent versions of MATLAB:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-3PRRDV.html