Using BLAT service in GITLAB

Question

We have a GITLAB setup and We want to send the output of a error file as a attachment and giving a proper message including in the body as a mail notification to the recipients using BLAT as a service. Using below code

blat -subject "IP is not pingable" -body "please check the attachment for the error logs" -attach C:\Temp\error.txt -to santoshkumar.angadi@yahoo.com

We want to send this from the GITLAB. But I am getting BLAT error log as :

Error: Not a socket for a SMTP server. How to achieve this

Aleksey Tsalolikhin · Answer 1 · 2020-05-06T19:56:05.200

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Specify an SMTP server with the -server <address>

See http://www.blat.net/syntax/server.html

Make sure it's one that blat can connect to.

As http://www.blat.net/?docs/readme.txt says: To use Blat you must have access to a SMTP server via TCP-IP

edited May 06 '20 at 19:56

answered Apr 29 '20 at 17:23

Aleksey Tsalolikhin

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setting **blat -install smtp-out.mail.com santoshkumar.anadi@yahoo.com** I am getting below error ** Error: Not a socket for a SMTP server** Any idea why this error – Santosh Kumar Apr 30 '20 at 05:18
`smtp-out.mail.com` is not a valid SMTP server. I tested with `telnet smtp-out.mail.com 25` and I got: `telnet: could not resolve smtp-out.mail.com/25: Name or service not known` – Aleksey Tsalolikhin Apr 30 '20 at 13:09
I am using like `blat -install telnet smtp-out.us.gmail.com santoshkumar.angadi@gmail.com` I got the error as **couldnot resolve hostname telnet** – Santosh Kumar Apr 30 '20 at 14:03
Your quick response will be appreciated. – Santosh Kumar May 04 '20 at 13:29
`telnet` is not a hostname, Santosh. – Aleksey Tsalolikhin May 05 '20 at 15:36
Is this on a self-hosted GitLab instance or on gitlab.com? If on a self-hosted instance, do you have an SMTP server? – Aleksey Tsalolikhin May 05 '20 at 15:40
Then how to use it. Blat -install smtp server email ID. But it is throwing me error as socket layer error. – Santosh Kumar May 06 '20 at 05:40
If you don't have access to an SMTP server, blat won't work for you. As http://www.blat.net/?docs/readme.txt says: To use Blat you must have access to a SMTP server via TCP-IP. – Aleksey Tsalolikhin May 06 '20 at 19:54
I have installed blat and blat is working fine from CMD. If I type just blat and press enter it is giving me option that how to use blat. But from Gitlab it is not working. – Santosh Kumar May 07 '20 at 04:05
Can you get blat to send email from the command line? I thought it was throwing a socket error? – Aleksey Tsalolikhin May 07 '20 at 13:20
Yes it is throwing me socket error. Just to confirm blat is installed properly I typed blat from CMD and it is giving me options that how to use blat, and then I tried to set my SMTP using blat -install it is throwing me socket error – Santosh Kumar May 08 '20 at 13:10
You need to provide a valid SMTP server, to which BLAT can connect on port 25. – Aleksey Tsalolikhin May 08 '20 at 14:41

Using BLAT service in GITLAB

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