PoshTip #8 – Send emails from the console

PoshTip #8 – Send emails from the console

A useful technique for every sysadmin is to be able to send an email message from PowerShell.

Send-MailMessage

This cmdlet permit to send an email message with a single line of code. Below is an example :

Send-MailMessage -to "dest@get-cmd.com" -from "Contact <contact@get-cmd.com>" -Subject "My subject" -body "Test body for Send-MailMessage"

.NET objects : MailMessage and SmtpClient

We will import two .NET objects and fill the properties of the email (From, To, Smtp Server …)

$smtpServer = "smtp.server.com"
$smtpFrom = "contact@get-cmd.com"
$smtpTo = "dest@get-cmd.com"
$msgSubject = "My subject"
$msgBody = "This is an example message"

$msg = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $smtpFrom, $smtpTo, $msgSubject, $msgBody
$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient $smtpServer

$smtp.Send($msg)