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Im using sendemail in a batch file. At the end of sending an email it replys with a message of succses or failure. For example 

Jan 10 00:46:54 villa sendemail[456]: Email was sent successfully!

Is it possible to capture this message into a variable for processing?

Thx

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Yes, you need to execute sendmail through the for loop:

for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('[sendmail command line]') do (
    set VAR=%%a
)

After this runs, VAR will be set to the last line that sendmail output. You can then do processing on that line 

for /f "tokens=5,* delims= " %%a in (%VAR%) do (
    if "%%b"=="Email was sent successfully!" (
        echo SUCCESS
        exit /b 0
    ) else (
        echo FAILURE
        exit /b 1
    )
)
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    Notice to myself: start looking for such things on Stackoverflow instead of google.
    – Marc Wittke
    Jun 17 '10 at 6:42
  • what about a command line like strings %1 -t d | grep -e "[0-9]\{1,3\}"? (tihs one with unxutils, but potentially with windows-only programs)
    – n611x007
    Sep 13 '13 at 12:39
  • Thanks. This can be ran in cmd.exe outside of a BAT file as one command: for /f %a in ('type file.txt') do (set VAR=%a). DO NOT do this: for /f %a in ('type file.txt') do ( set VAR=%a ) (VAR = contents of file.txt plus one space character); don't do it unless you want a space at the end.
    – Rublacava
    4 mins ago
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normally, you just use the for loop to capture the output. see here notes 4. (and search internet for more)

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