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Sending emails in R without outlook app in the system

I'm able to send emails using the following code.

OutlookForSend = RDCOMClient::COMCreate("Outlook.Application")
emailToSend = OutlookForSend$CreateItem(0)
emailToSend[["subject"]] = "Subject"
emailToSend[["HTMLBody"]] = bodyToSend
emailToSend[["To"]] = "Email"
emailToSend$Send()

However, I don't have outlook installed, in the server machine but still need to send emails.

I'm able to achieve the same using the package mailer in Python , what is the best way to achieve the same in R.

Thanks

Solution

  • Solved the problem, using mailR package and it works well.

    library(mailR)
send.mail(from = "email@company.com",
          to = "email@company.com",
          subject = subjectToSend ,
          body = bodyToSend,
          html = TRUE,
          smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.company.com", port = 25), 
          send = TRUE)