SAS 9.4 Language Reference, 6th Edition

Statements That Control SMTP E-mail

FILENAME Statement

In the FILENAME statement, the EMAIL (SMTP) access method enables you to send e-

mail programmatically from SAS using the SMTP e-mail interface. For more

information, see the “FILENAME Statement” in SAS Global Statements: Reference.

FILE and PUT Statements

You can specify e-mail options in the FILE statement. E-mail options that you specify in

the FILE statement override any corresponding e-mail options that you specified in the

FILENAME statement.

In the DATA step, after using the FILE statement to define your e-mail fileref as the

output destination, use PUT statements to define the body of the message. The PUT

statement directives override any other e-mail options in the FILE and FILENAME

statements.

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