Sending reports and timestamped file by emailing

Illustrates result updates, activity tracking, timestamping and file zipping, tarr'ing via email.

main executing reference usage:

[1] usage_send_mail.m

Illustrates email sending with multiple separate files or single timestamped tar file. Attachment failure is properly handled, with continuation of report emailing without the attachment.

[2] usageTar_unTarFiles.m

Illustrates 'zipping and unzipping' of tar files. Timestamping facility is also provided. The timestamp is also adapted for files with multiple extensions, ie. *.tar.gz, etc.

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The objective is to illustrate updates of matlab results activity tracking via email. The sub-objectives subsume illustrations of utilities for timestamping and file zipping/ tar'ing.

This subsumes an enhanced version of matlab gmail'ing (http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-3PRRDV.html). The enhancement includes:

ss1. Better handling of attachment failure, with continuation of report emailing without the attachment.

ss2. Timestamping of tar files, precision may be in minutes, seconds or in milisecs.

Sample output:

ssMATLAB:sendmail:CannotOpenFile