Send email message to address list
sendmail(recipients,subject)
sendmail(recipients,subject,message)
sendmail(recipients,subject,message,attachments)
sendmail(recipients,subject) sends email to
recipients with the specified
subject. For a single recipient, specify
recipients as a character vector or a string. For
multiple recipients, specify recipients as a cell array
of character vectors or a string array. subject must be a
character vector or string.
sendmail(recipients,subject,message) includes the
specified message. If message is a
character vector or a string, sendmail automatically
wraps text at 75 characters. To force a line break in the message text, use
10, as shown in the Examples. If
message is a cell array of character vectors or a
string array, then each element represents a new line of text.
sendmail(recipients,subject,message,attachments)
attaches the files listed in the attachments input
argument. attachments can be a character vector, cell
array of character vectors, or string array.
Send a message with two attachments to a hypothetical email address:
sendmail('user@otherdomain.com',...
'Test subject','Test message',...
{'folder/attach1.html','attach2.doc'});
Send a message with forced line breaks (using 10)
to a hypothetical email address:
sendmail('user@otherdomain.com','New subject', ...
['Line1 of message' 10 'Line2 of message' 10 ...
'Line3 of message' 10 'Line4 of message']);
The resulting message is:
Line1 of message Line2 of message Line3 of message Line4 of message
The sendmail function does not
support HTML-formatted messages. However, you can send HTML files
as attachments.
If sendmail cannot determine your
email address or outgoing SMTP mail server from your system registry,
specify those settings using the setpref function.
For example:
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','my_server.example.com');
setpref('Internet','E_mail','my_email@example.com');To identify the SMTP server for the call to setpref,
check the preferences for your electronic mail application, or consult
your email system administrator. If you cannot easily determine the
server name, try 'mail', which is a common default,
such as:
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','mail');By default, the sendmail function
does not support email servers that require authentication. To support
these servers, change your system settings and set preferences for
the SMTP user name and password, with commands in the following form:
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username','myaddress@example.com');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password','mypassword');To override the default character encoding, set the preference for email character encoding as follows:
setpref('Internet','E_mail_Charset',encoding); encoding is
a character vector specifying the character encoding, such as 'SJIS'.On Windows® systems with Microsoft®
Outlook®, you can send email directly through Outlook by accessing the COM server with actxserver. For an example, see Solution 1-RTY6J.