how do you send email from R

Question

I want to send emails from R. This is what I have so far:

library(sendmailR)


from <- "[email protected]"
to <- "[email protected]"
subject <- "Performance Result"
body <- "This is the result of the test:"                     
mailControl=list(smtpServer="snmpt server address")

sendmail(from=from,to=to,subject=subject,msg=body,control=mailControl)

When I execute this script, my R session hangs. Any ideas what might be happening?

Answer 1

If you need to be able to use an smtp server with authentication you can use the mailR package.

For example using gmail's smtp server:

library(mailR)
sender <- "[email protected]"
recipients <- c("[email protected]")
send.mail(from = sender,
          to = recipients,
          subject = "Subject of the email",
          body = "Body of the email",
          smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 465, 
                      user.name = "[email protected]",            
                      passwd = "YOURPASSWORD", ssl = TRUE),
          authenticate = TRUE,
          send = TRUE)