Sending Email in Cadence

Hi friends,

Is there any SKILL function which can send emails to specific email
addresses?? For example, any functions like SendEmail(
"," "message_hello" ) or something like
this??

Any comment is highly appreciated ~

Will

 

hi Will, if you can figure out how to send an email from the shell,
then you can send it from SKILL with the SKILL function called
system.

The problem is that it is pretty difficult to come up with a shell
script
that will send email on any UNIX system because of the different
command lines available for the mail program and the fact that some
system administrators disable the UNIX mail program to try to force
you to use microsoft outlook or something like that.

But assume you have a shell script that works like the following.

my_mail -subject "the subject line" -to <<EOF
this is the mail body
many lines of
mail happily going to the correct
destination.
EOF

then you can write a SKILL function like the following.

(defun send_email (@key (subject "default subject") (to "nobody") (body
'("default body") "ttl"))
(let ((tmpfile (outfile "/tmp/mailfile"))) ;; better would to make
a uniq filename
(foreach line body (fprintf "%s\n" line))
(close tmpfile))
(system (sprintf nil "cat /tmp/mailfile | my_mail -subject %L -to
%L" subject to ))
(deleteFile "/tmp/mailfile"))

It would be better to create a tmp file name that is unique, but i
always forget the name of the makeTmpFileName function.

And again, the trick is to write the shell script my_mail so that it
works on your UNIX system and anywhere on your network where someone
might want to run your SKILL function.

-jim

 

Pretty close - it's makeTempFileName()

Andrew.