6. Messaging and Faxing Objects
In This Chapter
• Scripts can send email or faxes to report problems and automate workflow.
• Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) can send plain text and HTML-formatted text messages with any number of attachments. The faxing objects send documents via fax through your fax modem.
• The CDO and faxing objects are complex, but they’re easier to use than you’d first guess. Use the examples provided here as your starting point.
Sending Email from Scripts with CDO
Although we usually think of email as a person-to-person medium, you can also send email directly from Windows Script programs. Here are some examples:
• For automated, scheduled scripted operations such as backups, reports, or disk cleanups, it’s important ...
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