"cannot access file" when sending attachments with _INetSmtpMailCom

[Snax]

I am trying to send an email (using the _InetSmtpMailCom function) with a text file attachment which is a log file I am compiling during the running of my script.

My first version of my script used 1 standard log file. It was appended to every time I ran my script. Everything worked fine in terms of emailing the attachment. Then I decided I wanted to have a new log file every time the script ran so I started doing the following:

; Assign date/timestamp

$date_time = @MON&@MDAY&@YEAR & "-" & @HOUR&@MIN&@SEC

; Assign report name/path to variable

$log_file = "N:\AutoIT\logfiles\report_log_"&$date_time&".txt"

; Create 0 byte flat file

$log = FileWrite($log_file, "")

; Open flat file for writing

$report_log = FileOpen($log_file, 1)

At the end of the script I:

FileClose($log_file)

$email_res = _SMTPEmail($log_file)

However, I get an error message stating that the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Again, this didn't happen when I was just opening the same file every time to append the new log data to.

Any ideas why this may be getting stuck like this?

Apparently, it's my script that is locking the file because I wrote a little test script to do nothing but send that same file and it work fine:

#Include <email_func.au3>

$email_res2 = _SMTPEmail("N:\AutoIT\logfiles\report_log_01172007-114308.txt")

Edited January 17, 2007 by Snax

[Jos]

$log_file = "N:\AutoIT\logfiles\report_log_"&$date_time&".txt"

; Create 0 byte flat file

$log = FileWrite($log_file, "")

; Open flat file for writing

$report_log = FileOpen($log_file, 1)

At the end of the script I:

FileClose($log_file)

You are not closing the filehandle $report_log

this : FileClose($log_file)

should be FileClose($report_log)

[Snax]

Egad!

Thanks a bunch, that was it! Sometimes it just take a set of new eyes.