Can anyone help? please...

Hi everyone... i need a big favor from you guys..

if anyone has any info on how to make one or where to get it.. please post... Anything is appreciated thanks...

I am looking for a program that does the following..

sends a 9kb file to my email or ftp from various other computers on a weekly basis...

i.e. this program will autosend the file in the specified directory each week automatically behind the scene of the computer. The user must only load this program once to work... after that it should work auto... kinda like loading up in run services.. and sending out the same 9kb file repeatedly to an email or ftp on a weekly time basis...

I need this so that i can automatically recieve these files from anyone who loads the program on their computer... that way they wont send me the same file over and over again each week... and there are gonna be about 20 computers that will have this program loaded so that would be too much trouble...

Thats why i need it to be automated.. :confused:


So whoever know of a auto file sender... that runs in the computer background...

Please tell me...

THANKS

Wich OS..?

xDrack

You can try Blat out. We use it to send daily/weekly reports that are generated by another third-party application. It works great! You can even add attachments. It has alot of useful functionality. We also put together a batch file that sends a different message using blat to let us know when the report generation failed. You can schedule it to run using the built-in task scheduler if you are running windows.

Hope that helps! There are tons of other applications that will accomplish what you need. You just have to look for them. Have you googled for possible solutions? Take advantage of all of your resources.


Regards,

t2k2

well its for win os... 95 - winXp

also... i looked into blat and it sounds good however.. i need something more basic and smaller in size...

i need something that is just kinda like a file i can send to my other computer... when i load the file it auto sends an email each week with an attached file from that computer..

Thats it.. this is gonna go out to many computers so it has to be very user friendly... just a double click on the program and thats it... that is after its configured to send to a certain mail address... and to send the certain file in the certain directory... etc...

excuse my sinicism, but to me it sounds like the sort of program you would use in conjunction with a keylogger??

can i ask why you need the program to automatically send a file (that could be made with the key logger) to an email address??

hey guys i am still looking for a autofile sender... just like the previous post said its simmilar to the functionality of a keylogger... the keylogger can autosend the saved text file... however.. i dont need a keylogger.. i just need a program that i can configure.. to send out a file from a persons computer... that it! im sure someone out their knows how to write something like this in VB or whatever... if anyone can help i would really appreciate it :)

i need this asap :mad:

explanation why i need this type of program.... - - - - - - >

The program does sound like a trojan or a keylogger filesender... however the real reason i need it is for something legit and legal.... I am a organizer of a squad for Delta Force 2 a game made by novalogic... u probably herd bout it... Anyway we need stats from each person after every game they play so we can keep it updated on our site.. and the league we are in... usually people would just printscreen at the end of a game to record their scores... they would then just send those pictures to me to record... however not many people are honest and they will only record their good games.... so we have figured out that the game has a file in the game directory which records all the game records... and we told our whole team that we are gonna have a program soon that will automatically record each game and send the stats to me...

what it really does is just sends us there player sav file from their game directory whic we can know every game the player has playe in... and their whole complete score...

Well I hope u now know why... i didnt want to explain this earlier cuz its too much too explain..

anyway... if someone wanted to make this program for me... i wouldnt mind a disclamer or whatever saying like... opening this file will send out a file from your computer each week... because the people i am sending it to know this will happen...

Googled quickly and found this: "How do I automatically FTP using NT?" http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articl...rticleID=14457 (the solution looks to me that it works for any Windows).

All Windowses (hmm, not actually sure about 95...) have a program called 'Scheduled Tasks' (Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools) built in, so you can use that for the weekly execution.

Well i took a look at that link but im not sure how that can help??? i mean how do i make that program send files... automatically? how does it work?

their should be something out there that is simple... just open a program configure some type of server file with the info and thats it... u just open the server and it autosends files from the computer each week... :confused: :confused: :confused:

"Took a look" but didn't read it? I don't know how to write it in any simpler way... You will have to have an input file for the ftp (ftp.exe, comes with every Windows) and in there you type the commands needed for the file upload. Then you run that Scheduled Tasks and define a new task to run your brand new FTP-shorcut with a parameter -s:uploadcommands.txt.

I dunno if this program is any help, I just happened to find it: http://www.uploadaway.com/

Ok i tried out that ftp program... however there are two main problems with it...

first ! every person who wants me to send their data will have to download that whole program.. then insert my ftp address etc. to make it work... the program is basically just an ftp program.... the only diff is that it takes the whole directory i sellect and upload it automatically...

Second problem is that it wont select certain files.. it will on upload whole directories... so that would take forever because the file that i need uploaded auto is in a game folder... and the game is like 400 Mb!!! so yea that wouldnt work either...


OK OK i dont exactly need an ftp program... its just gotta be something like this... the closest thing i can think of is a trojan or one of those keylogger programs... i will use the keylogger as an example.

some keyloggers will save the logged keys in a text file. Then the keylogger will auto send that file to an email adress or ftp server each time the file is updated.

So i need something like that however... i dont need the whole keylogger program because thats not what it will be used for! i just need some kind of program that will make a configured file. The file that it makes when opened will hide itself in the computers background and send out a file each week. I know it may sound confusing, but its really simple.. im sure someone out there knows how to make some kind of VB program that will hide itself in the computers background and send out the same file from the computer auto each week or so...

thinking you are barking up the wrong tree. do your homework like everyone else. it is called comparision shopping. if your have so much time to spend playing video games im sure you can find the time to read a few hundred pages.

hey, yea its somewhat correct... let me explain in further detail...

I need a program... or a way to configure a file... to do the following...


when the program or file is loaded it must send this ...

C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav

to a email address or ftp address every week automatically...

All the user has to do is open the file or program once on their computer! after that the program or script or whatever will run on its own forever! (not literal)


Now then... i dont know any VB whatsoever, and i wouldn know of anyway to make this program on my own... the only thing i know which comes close to this is kinda like a trojan... u configure the server and send it to someone... the server when opened then does **** on its own, i.e. sends out info to the client...

so i need something similar in which a file will be sent to my squad members... they open it once and each week the file i listed above will be sent to my email address... they will see nothing going on... everything must be done in the computers background.


Ok i think i explained this way too much...

How about this... if anyone is interested. maybe they could make this for me... this program or file or whatever that will do what i ask...

in return i can do multimedia work for u... i am a multimedia designer and thats what im good at... if anyone wants to trade some programmin skills for web skills... design, flash, graphics.. or whatever then please reply..

TIME IS RUNNING OUT and i need someone to help me...

checking out my work...

www.markethink.net


THANKS ....

Firstly Do you want it secure through Crypt.
Secondly what OS and resoutces do you have? :confused:

Hey lebb, this file that has to be made must work on win OS...

98, NT, 200, XP etc.

it can be a simple program or file.... all it has to do is just autosend this file from the persons computer...

C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav


it has to send this file every week... it must be a week because the file might not get updated everyday on the persons computer, and i dont want to get the same info over and over again...


it can send that file to my email address as an attachment... the file is very small... it wont reach any bigger then 30kb

it has to be automated too... so after the user loads this autosender file on their computer its done...

thats all i need... if u can help then email me

[email protected]

oh and the file thats sent doesnt have to be secure, or encrypted... the file isnt anything important just player game stats... thats all

i just need the file sent to me...

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Originally posted here by indeago
well its for win os... 95 - winXp

also... i looked into blat and it sounds good however.. i need something more basic and smaller in size...

i need something that is just kinda like a file i can send to my other computer... when i load the file it auto sends an email each week with an attached file from that computer..

Thats it.. this is gonna go out to many computers so it has to be very user friendly... just a double click on the program and thats it... that is after its configured to send to a certain mail address... and to send the certain file in the certain directory... etc...

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Ok, you are saying the program is too big. I am not sure why, as it is only 35kb in size - definitely small enough to fit on a floppy. Maybe it's too complex??? All you have to do is set it up once and copy the configuration and/or script file to all of the computers in question. Really it's quite simple, you could just formulate one blat command with all the necessary switches, and add a scheduled job on all of the machines.


Good luck anyway. :D

Well i will look at it again... u think u can maybe help me configure the file or script or whatever(Blat)... that i send to all the computers?

i can tell u the exact file location, and the email to send it to.. thats all that the scripted file must do... i guess i could get the guys to do the schedule. task... so that will solve the automated problem... the only thing left is really to configure the file.

Thanks for all the support.. :D

ok guys... i checked out blat. And i have one big problem... what the hell do i use to edit the blat.exe file? how can i configure it? Can anyone configure it for me? i would really appreciate that... ;)

also the readme file says to install blat into system32 folder... i tried that and when i ran it the command poped up but dissapeared.... i am running win2000


thanks

I will post a sample blat command for you. I just have to familiarize myself with the command switches real quick (not on this machine). Basically, all I will have to do is just type in the Blat command from a command line and hit enter. It will then give me the syntax and the available switches.

By the way, that's probably where you went wrong. You may have tried to run it from a run prompt instead of a command prompt. You will have to go the run prompt and type "cmd" - then hit Enter. Provided you copied Blat into the System32 dir like you stated, you should be able to type in blat and hit enter as described above. I will post with the sample syntax to give you a better idea.

You should really invest a few minutes to figure out how to use it. It's really simple. I will give you a sample, but you're off the rocker if you think I am going to do your work for you Buddy! :P

Regards,

t2k2

hey, i tried this out today... but it didnt work

first at the command prompt i typed blat...

that worked... it showed all the commands and syntax to use... i then i tried to setup the smtp server... and it wont work.. i even tried sending myself a file which didnt work...

blat c:\filename -to <[email protected]>

i tried this too

blat c:\filenam -to [email protected]

anyway everytime some error message came up!


i know blat is installed u think u could help me out with what commands i have to do for the following..

my smtp server is postoffice.pacbell.net
my email address is [email protected]

and the file i want to send is...

C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav


also after this is all inputed, is it then saved to the blat file? so the next thing to do is somehow make windows schduel to open this blat file every week right?? also after config. the blat file can i send it out to others... and tell them to just install in the system folder then just set up the schedueled task? or is there a easier way?


Thanks

Try something like this:

blat df2plyrs.sav -t [email protected] -server postoffice.pacbell.net -f Subject -port 25

I think it's something like that.


Cheers:

ok guys i got blat working... first thing... my pacbell server doesnt work! i dont know why.... its postoffice.pacbell.net

so instead i tried my other email server... smtp.rednine.net

first at the prompt i did this..

blat -install smtp.rednine.net rednine

it then states that the server is rednine.net and the user id is rednine... and its set at port 25

then i put this in to test it out...

blat c:\myfile.txt -s testing -t [email protected]

so it worked... it sent it out!

now the only problem is... how can i make this work auto...

i mean im not gonna type this **** out everytime at the command prompt...
i mean i might as well just send an email out with outlook express, cuz thats all blat does is just sends out mail from the command prompt...

so i guess i have to make another file or script that runs on the command prompt! am i right? how can i make this file... so that when i click on it it will send out the file from the command using blat... and then i could schedule that file to load each week... and that would work great!


so far so good... almost done... just need someone to tell me what i need to do next, to make it automated...


Thanks

OK OK... i thought it was working... well it send out an email supposedly.. i mean i have a virus scanner and it shows that an email is goin out... however i sent it like an hour ago and still havent recieved it in my email! whats wrong with it??? what am i doin wrong?

Ok, here's one configuration. It may seem a bit convaluted, but it will make for easy modifications. The batch file to execute via the scheduler will something like below. After this, I will break down each part for you.

[BATCH]
IF NOT EXIST C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav goto FAIL

blat (file containing email body txt) -tf (file containing recip list) -s (Subject of email) -i (who email is from) -server (smtp server) -f (sender) -attach "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav"
copy "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav" "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrsold.sav"
del "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav"
goto END

:FAIL
blat (file with failure txt notice) -s "File send failure!" -i (from addr) -server (smtp server) -f (sender) -attach "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrsold.sav"

:END
[/BATCH]

The example I have given will check for the sav file in the specified directory, and if it's not there (first line), it will go to the fail section of the batch file and send you the old file with a subject of "File send failure." You could take this out - I am just showing you a possible function if you wanted. Also, you could just send an email stating that it failed without sending an old copy. With that in mind, you would get rid of the copy line, but you would need to make sure that the previous sav file is not in the directory since your program will probably be attempting to write a file with the same name. Depending on your application, that may cause problems, but maybe not. The blat command itself has been explained with the switches, then their function in the parentheses.

The "file containing email body txt" could say something like "Your file is attached."

The "file containing recip list" would have a line-by-line list of email addresses for the email to be sent to.

Everything else should be self-explanatory.

You should name this batch file with a ".bat" extension, and use the task scheduler to execute your blat batch file on a regular basis. You may be thinking : why not just plug the blat command into the scheduler? The answer is that it's too long (at least it is in Win2k, so probably in Win9x also).

By the way, make sure that you don't put in the [BATCH] AND [/BATCH] tags. I only put those in to show you where the batch file would begin. :P


Hope that helps!


t2k2

ok one last thing....

the batch file seems to be working properly... however i have one more problem.

blat C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav -t [email protected] -s test -i [email protected] -server mail.rednine.net -f [email protected] -attach "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav"

when i try this at the promt... it says

c:\Program Files does not exist ?!@!@


so instead i just tried this... i saved a text file on c: called test.txt

i then tried this at the prompt...

blat c:\test.txt -t [email protected] -s testing -i [email protected] -server mail.rednine.net -f [email protected] -attach "C:\test.txt"

this was the output...

Sending c:\test.txt to [email protected]
Subject:testing
Login name is [email protected]
Attached binary file: C:\test.txt


so that worked... i got the file in my email!!

i wanna know why it couldnt find the other file in my directory...

if i remember correctly c:\Program Files... isnt writen the same on the command prompt...

cuz there are spaces... so its writen diff

any way i appreciate the batch file u made.. and all the help u have given me..

THANKS

Because of the long file names (I think), try it as c:\progra~1. That should work.


Cheers:

why is it that sometimes the mail will go through.. other times it wont...

example i sent out 5 files with blat... then i sent out some more and i never recieved them however blat had sent them out... then i tried my other email address and server, and blat sent it out, however i didnt recieved it yet...

Well, off hand it doesn't sound like blat. Are you using different SMTP Servers and does one allow relaying and one not. E-mail's send via blat, may be considered as an attempted relay and therefore blocked by some SMTP servers.


Cheers:

actually i just recieved the mails... i guess my mail servers can be slow sometimes...

anyway i still have one more problem...

i need to know how i can figure out how to locate this file on the command prompt...

c:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Delta Force 2\df2plyrs.sav

maybe if i download some kind of nes emulator... and go to that file it will show how it is exactly writen on the command prompt... :)

Again, I go back to the issue of long file name. I know for example Program Files is linked to progra~1. As for the others your going to have to check, Long file names get will be some version of the file name with ~1 at the end. For example at the command line at root, if you type in cd progra~1, you will end up in the program files directory.


Cheers:

ok i know what to do... its so easy...

instead of putin just c:\program files....

u gotta put it in quotes.. so it would look like this

"c:\program files\novalogic\delta force 2\df2plyrs.sav"

hahah its easy....


well! i want to thank everyone for all the support and help!

i really appreciate it! if i have any other problems or questions i will hollar back.

thanks again
:D

ok ok one more last thing....

when i setup a scheduled task, lets says a weekly task...

what will happen if the user is not on the internet that day? or what will happen if the users computer isnt on? will the file still be sent with blat?? will it be sent the next day? how does that work? and if the computer isnt connected to the net and the task still runs! will the file be sent????

Ummm...indeago. I already showed you that you needed it in quotes in the sample batch file that I typed for you. Maybe I should have stressed that you needed them because of the space.

My bad. :rolleyes:

I'm glad I could help! ;)

I can't take all the credit for it. It was something my boss and I worked on some time ago, but I'm glad it was able to help someone else. Each one teach one.

Cheers,

t2k2