Grant Holliday

PowerShell has access to the complete .NET Framework, so the easiest way to send an email is just the way you would do it in .NET, using the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class.

You can do it as simply as this:

$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient(”localhost”)
$smtp.Send(”from@yourdomain.com”, “recipient@theirdomain.com”, “subject here”, “body here”)

If you want more control over the message contents, you can use the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage class and send that instead.

$filename = “logfile.txt”
$smtpServer = “localhost”

$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
$att = new-object Net.Mail.Attachment($filename)
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)

$msg.From = “somebody@yourdomain.com”
$msg.To.Add(”somebody@theirdomain.com”)
$msg.Subject = “Nightly Log File”
$msg.Body = “The nightly log file is attached”
$msg.Attachments.Add($att)

$smtp.Send($msg)

Thanks to the PowerShell Guy /\/\o\/\/ – Sending Mail from MSH!