After all the work I did with the dates in the environment variable I had a need to email the files I was working with.  Found a really GREAT command line utility that allows for sending email from a batch file.  It has nearly endless options and took about 2 minutes to setup and get working in our environment.  It’s called Blat and is available from this site.

If you want to learn a lot about sending email and can read C++ you can also download the full source code for Blat.