PowerShell Fast Track: Hacks for Non-Coders

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6. Sending Email

Vikas Sukhija¹  

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Waterloo, ON, Canada

 

Sending email is an important aspect of scripting. Say you want to send alerts if a script results in an error, or you want to send bulk emails without utilizing any bulk email tool.

PowerShell has a simple and effective out-of-the-box cmdlet for this purpose right from PowerShell v2. The following is an example of Send-MailMessage, which is prevalent in PowerShell:

Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer "smtpserver" -From "[e-mail]" -To "[e-mail] " -Subject "Error exception occured " -Body "body of the message" ...