MATLAB: How to send email reminders using sendmail

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Hi, I’m trying to set up an email reminder system, where I can send emails at certain dates. I’ve been looking at the sendmail function but I haven’t found any information as to how I can edit the send date. I.e I have a simple csv, with email addresses and appointment reminders and want to send email reminders based on those dates.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Is that a 3rd party function or are you refering to sendmail()? It is not possible to set the send-date using sendmail(). The email is sent when the command it executed. Instead, you could write a program that could be run daily where a table contains the email information in one column and the send-date in another column. If today's date is the send date, the program could send the email and then remove the entry from the table.

Alternatively you could create a timer object that controls when the email is sent but if matlab shuts down (or if the timer object is deleted) the emails will never be sent.

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This example illustrates how to create and send an appointment in Outlook from within MATLAB using ActiveX:

h = actxserver('outlook.Application')
% Create the appointment object
appointment = h.CreateItem('olAppointmentItem') 
% Set some common properties of the appointment object.
appointment.Subject = 'Myappointment'
appointment.Body = 'This appointment was created in MATLAB'
appointment.Location = 'myLocation'
appointment.Start = '04/26/2006'
appointment.End = '04/27/2006'
appointment.ReminderSet = 1
appointment.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 5
appointment.IsOnlineMeeting = 0
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appointment.Save()

You can attach this appointment to an email and send it:

%Create email object
mail = h.CreateItem('olMail'); 
%Set properties of the email object
mail.Subject = 'This email was sent from within MATLAB';
mail.To = 'myemail@mathworks.com';
mail.Body = 'Please find your appointment attached';
mail.BodyFormat = 'olFormatHTML';
%Attach the appointment to the email
mail.attachments.Add(appointment);
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mail.Send;
%Release the Outlook interface
h.release;%

MATLAB: Email Using Matlab

You send emails from matlab using the sendmail command.

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not sure if you can send variables directly from workspace.. However you could save the variables as a *.mat file and definitely attach the *.mat file in the email..

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