Sending Email with SAS 9.3

[Aditi24]

Hi,

I want to embed the contents of a log file in mail body and send it using SAS 9.3. I am able to send attachments but I want to send the contents of file in mail body. Please help.

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

Should be quite straight forward.  Run your program, that creates a log file.  Then have another program which runs, does a datastep infile read in of the text file and then creates the email.

data temp;

  infile "thelog.log";

  input text $200.;

run;

filename mymail email 'someone@somewhere'  subject='Log file';

data _null_;
  file mymail;

  set temp;
  put text;
run;

However I would strongly advise against this approach.  The reason being is that logs can get very big ver quickly.  If your sending out hundreds of pages of email each time your IT people will cut you off 🐵  

Why do you need to send the log?  Why not pre-process the log to find any errors/warnings and only send that minimal information out.  Why use email at all, SAS has some enterprise setups to do this kind of automation (stored process springs to mind), and there are plenty of other tools out there as well.

[Aditi24]

Thank you so much for your help :). And yeah..the log file which will be generated will hold the output of 2 batch commands and is very short. So, there is very less chance of people cutting me off 😛

Anyway, thanks a lot!! 🙂