You could invoke "blat" - an e-mailer widely available on the web - via the "shell" command.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes the jobs write out progress logs & intermediate results as they > progress, my question is more about the actual notification (mail sending) > method. > > ---Björn Helgason wrote: > > I usually lety the jobs write out status logs that can be > > checked.You can > > then have a job that checks the logs and send mails to you as needed. > > > > 2008/12/11 Sherlock, Ric > > > > > I have some long-running (several days) jobs based around > > the deoptim addon > > > that I am running on 6 different computers. > > > > > > It would be nice if jobs could notify me when they had > > finished so I would > > > know to retrieve the results. > > > > > > My initial thought is to see if I can use > > ~system/packages/winapi/mapi.ijs > > > to send an email to me. > > > Is that a good (and hopefully easy) way to go? Other ideas? > > > > > > I notice that mapi.ijs is Windows only, which is OK because > > currently all > > > the computers I'm using for this are flavours of Windows > > (Win2K, WinXP, > > > Win2003, WinVista) but a cross-platform solution would be better. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
