Questions pertaining to using an SMTP client for sending email with R
The sendmailR package contains a simple smtp client which provides a portable solution for sending email, including attachements, from within r. Full documentation at CRAN
Questions tagged [sendmailr]
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sendmailR specify sender name
I am trying to specify a sender name while using sendmailR to send emails. I refer to this post(With sendmailR, how can I specify a recipient/sender name along with the address?), but it seems to me that the solution does not work properly, I got…
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Use sendmailR with Windows error
I am using sendmailR package to automate my email sending tasks. My code is like:
require(sendmailR)
from <- "test1@sample.com"
to <- 'test2@sample.com'
subject <- "Email Subject"
body <- "Email body." …
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SendmailR attach pdf
I'm working with the sendmailR package and trying to attach a data.frame to the mail. The data.frame is rather large so the best way to attach it would be a pdf, a .txt file distorts the table so that the content is rather unread able.
Is there a…
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Email Unique Attachments to multiple recipients using 'sendmailR'
I am trying to use the 'sendmailR' library to read a data frame I have made, and then email each recipient their own individual attachment:
library(sendmailR)
library(readxl)
# Read the XLSX file
data <-…
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How to iterate through the unread emails and save the attachments to a local folder in R?
As part of my job responsibilities, I have to open ~55 emails in each day and save the attachments to a local folder. I am tired of doing that manually in each day and looking for ways to automate this. I have found some suggestions through the web…
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R facing SMTP error when automating email
I am trying to automate sending emails with attachment using R. But I am facing errors. How do I solve this?
Code:
library(mailR)
send.mail(from="",
to="",
subject="Test Email",
body="Test Email",
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R Session Aborted when loading mailR in R4.2.0
I have just updated to R4.2.0 (previously R3.2) and I now get R Session Aborted when loading the package on windows. Same error when running directly from R. Everything seems ok when I install the mailR package. I also updated all…
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r - cannot send mail to outlook via mailR
I am trying to send mail from R to outlook via mailR package, but I keep getting error whenever I try to run it. Here's my code :
library(mailR)
send.mail(
from = "me@companydomain.com",
to = c("coworker@companydomain.com"),
subject =…
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Save email to a local folder in R
I have a quite simple question. I am using sendmailR to send automatic emails, however i would like to make automatic archive of what has been sent out on local folder for the purpose of transparency.
does anyone know how to do this?
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Rmarkdown footnote not rendering properly when using sendmailR and viewed in Office365
I've built a HTML document in Rmarkdown and used some footnotes.
In R the rendering occurs correctly and I get nice tasty foonotes.
However when i send using sendmailR...the footnote return symbol is garbled...
Is this fixable? Any ideas why it's…
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Frequent disabling of my SMTP/Sendmail service by hostinger
I have a hosting at Hostinger and my mail id configured is being repeatedly disabled by the host informing me that spam mail is being forwarded from my id. I have changed my password number of times and activated my mail but after a few moments, it…
Debjyoti Chanda
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How to avoid `"msg" is missing` error using sendmail in R?
When I try to use sendmail from the sendmailR package in R, I am getting this error:
Error in .smtp_submit_mail(server, port, headers, msg, verbose) : argument "msg" is missing, with no default
Here is the code I am trying to…
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Problems with mailR in shiny apps
When I upload my application in shiny apps and press the button to send mail, it does not work and the application is dropped could help me[the application doesn´t work
observeEvent(input$sends,{
send.mail(from =…
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How to attach a file of multiple extension in mailR (Rstudio)
I want to attach files of different extension to a mail. My some id has pdf file and some has excel file. So i generated the path for both type of files. But when i attach the files its give me a error attach.files must link to a valid file. which…
Vaibhav Chawla
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Problem in loading mailR package in R version 3.6.1
Since I've developed my R into 3.6.1, mailR package is not working anymore getting this error: there is no package called ‘R.utils’.
Installing this package does not work either. Is there any way to fix it?
