MAILMSG

Name

mailmsg

Purpose (one Line Only)

Send an email message

Description

Calling Sequence

mailmsg,toaddr,subject,text

Inputs

toaddr - string, email address to send to.
subject - string, subject line for message
text - string (array or scalar), this is the body of the message to
be sent. Each entry in the string array is sent as a separate
line. No line processing is done but the line is checked to
make sure it won't trip special processing by the mail program.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

CCADDR - string (array or scalar) of additional addresses to send to.
default = no Cc: recipients
BCCADDR - string (array or scalar) of additional addresses to send to
with blind carbon copies (bcc:).
default = no Bcc: recipients
REPLYTO - string (array or scalar) of address(es) to be set for any
reply.
MAILCLIENT - name of external mail program, default='mail'

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

This program will create a temporary file named 'idl_tmpmail.txt' in the
current directory. It will be deleted when done but the program must
have write permission to succeed.

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2004/11/01
2016/11/30, MWB, added BCCADDR keyword
2016/12/05, MWB, added REPLYTO keyword