Totally non-Linux related, but I need some assistance ...

I have a rather unique situation, at least in my experience. We are using a program that is able to monitor it's own services, and perform certain tasks when an event occurs. In this situation, a service is stopped, and is supposed to restart, but does not. We are working with the vendor to fix the issue. However, for the time-being, we need to know when the service stops so we can restart it in a timely manner.

So, the program is capable of running DOS-mode commands. In this fashion, we would like to configure it to send an email upon the calling event.

I found that issuing the following command "start mailto:<email address>" will start the default email program, such as Outlook Express. But the command only opens a compose window, and does not automatically send the email.

So, what we need is a command or utility that can auto-send an email with a single DOS command.

Any ideas?

I find this one really interesting so I did a little googling which in fact yielded some results. As you mentioned Outlook Express I guess you're not using DOS but some sort of Windows DOS prompt on that machine(s)?

Sending mails from real DOS was what really caught my attention but I guess that's just impossible

There is a little app called blat that will send mail from a command prompt/script.