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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:01:42+00:00

I have a problem with stopping a service and starting it again and want

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I have a problem with stopping a service and starting it again and want to be notified when the process runs and let me know what the result is.

Here’s the scenario, I have a text file output of an ‘sc’ command. I want to send that file but not as an attachment. Also, I want to see the initial status quickly in the subject of the email.

Here’s the ‘servstop.txt’ file contents:

[SC] StartService FAILED 1058:

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

I want the subject of the email to be ‘Alert Service Start: [SC] StartService FAILED 1058’ and the body to contain the entire error message above.

I will put my current method in an answer below using a program called blat to send me the result.

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  1. Here’s how I’m doing this. First I got blat mail (public domain smtp mailer) and dropped it into d:\blat directory. My Exchange server allows me to email without id/password and just assumes that I am the person in the ‘from’ field of the blat command.

    @echo off sc start Alerter >servstop.txt SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set content= set subj= for /F 'delims=' %%i in (servstop.txt) do set content=!content! %%i   for /f 'tokens=1 delims=:' %%s in ('%content%') do set subj=%%s   d:\blat\blat.exe -body '%content%' -to my-email@foo.bar -f my-email@foo.bar -server smtp.foo.bar -s 'Alert Service Start:%subj% ' -log d:\blat\blat.log EndLocal
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