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To dynamically e-mail output from ODS in a SAS program, specify the EMAIL device on the FILENAME statement along with the e-mail address and any other of the e-mail options that you would like.

In addition, specify the following options either at invocation or in the config file. For your.smtp_server.host, substitute the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) server that supports e-mail access for your site:

   emailsys smtp
   emailhost your.smtp_server.host

Example 1: HTML Output under All Platforms

Here is some example code that sends HTML output in the body of your e-mail. Note that you must specify TYPE=TEXT/HTML, because the default content-type is TEXT/PLAIN, which would send your output as a text file with the HTML tags as text.

   filename temp email to="sasctp@tcp.com"
            subject="testing the email interface"
            type="text/html";

   ods html body=temp;

   proc print data=sashelp.class;
   run;

   ods html close;

Example 2: Attachment under All Platforms Except z/OS

For ODS destinations other than HTML (for example, RTF or PDF), the output is sent as an attachment to the e-mail. The following example code works for RTF output under all platforms except z/OS. (See example 3 for z/OS.)

Notice that the example code specifies a content-type of APPLICATION/MSWORD. For PDF, specify APPLICATION/PDF. Under Windows platforms, file types are usually registered and you can omit the content type.

   ods rtf body='c:\test\temp.rtf';

   proc print data=sashelp.class;
   run;

   ods rtf close;

     filename doemail email 'person@company.com'
              subject='Testing attach of html'
              attach='c:\test\temp.rtf' ct="application/msword" ;
     data _null_;
     file doemail;
     put 'this is a test';
   run;

Example 3: Attachment under z/OS

See the brief introduction to example 2. The syntax varies slightly under z/OS: use parentheses around the value for ATTACH=, and include the EXT= argument. (See more z/OS tips in SAS Note 23653.)

   ods rtf body='sasxxx.sas.rtf';

   proc print data=sashelp.class;
   run;

   ods rtf close;

     filename doemail email 'person@company.com'
              subject='Testing attach of html'
              attach=('sasxxx.sas.rtf' ct="application/msword" ext="rtf");
     data _null_;
     file doemail;
     put 'this is a test';
   run;

For more information, see the Universal Printing topics in SAS Language Reference: Concepts in the SAS online documentation. See also the Universal Printing topics on the Base SAS focus area.

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