Comments on: How to send an email using a Windows Powershell script

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:06:54 +0000

Thanks, works great.
I try to mail to 5000 recipients, is there a way the script can read from a textfile or excell file. Then I can mail those people an attachment.

Thank you

By: mahmoud

mahmoud — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:12:33 +0000

or this way

$messageParameters = @{
smtpServer = “smtphost”
From = md@yahoo.com
To = md@yahoo.com
Subject = “You Submitted a Job”
Body = “Your Job Chain is submitted successfully”
}

By: mahmoud

mahmoud — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:10:56 +0000

isn’t this lighter and better ??

$messageParameters = @{
smtpServer = “smtphost”
From = [string]$from
To = [string]$to
Subject = “You Submitted a Job”
Body = “Your Job Chain is submitted successfully”
}
Send-MailMessage @messageParameters -BodyAsHtml

By: Darin

Darin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:04:38 +0000

Do you know of a way to set a reminder in Outlook using this script? I’m trying to send an smtp html email and have it automatically set a reminder for each of the users.

Thanks!

By: anirudh

anirudh — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:03:17 +0000

i have found the problem. i need to authenticate the sender to send mails to external domains.
the below script worked for me to send mails to external domains:
$emailFrom = “user@yourdomain.com”
$emailTo = “user@yourdomain.com”
$subject = “your subject”
$body = “your body”
$smtpServer = “your smtp server”
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$credentials=new-object system.net.networkcredential(”domain\username”,”password”)
$smtp.credentials=$credentials.getcredentials($smtpserver,”portno(25 in my case)”,”authenticationtype(basic in my case)”)
$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)

By: anirudh

anirudh — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:45:21 +0000

i have tried sending mails to my gmail account using the first script but it didnt work it gave the following error:

Exception calling “Send” with “4″ argument(s): “Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1
Unable to relay”

Looking at the error i thougt it might work for sending mails to an internal address and yeah it worked.

is there a way i can modify the below script to use it to send mails to external domains:
$emailFrom = “user@yourdomain.com”
$emailTo = “user@yourdomain.com”
$subject = “your subject”
$body = “your body”
$smtpServer = “your smtp server”
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)

By: thb

thb — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:37:22 +0000

great help!

By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:35:29 +0000

This script has come in handy.

I’ve been using this on all my scripts to email myself the log files.

By: Bike Storage

Bike Storage — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:05:11 +0000

Windows PowerShell is Microsoft’s task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework.

By: Andbac

Andbac — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:31:01 +0000

Perhaps abit late…but anyhow:

A note regarding the -Encoding parameter in the Send-MailMessage in the (V2) cmdlet: it will not accept ASCII, UTF8 etc as value. One have to create a encoding object first like this (in my case UTF8):

$enc = New-Object System.Text.utf8encoding

Which then can be used like this:

Send-MailMessage -to “Firstname Lastname ” -From “Firstname2 Lastname2 ” `
-Subject “Test mail from PowerShell” -Body “Sending mail trough PowerShell V2 Send-MailMessage cmdlet” `
-SmtpServer mailserver.domain.com -Encoding $enc