Powershell: an email sending script (or how to send mail in Windows via PowerShell)

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Here is a little script that sends a letter to a recipient specified in its body, with a predefined subject and body text. For example, it can be used to automatically send emails in response to certain events.

mysendmail.ps1

$EmailFrom = "from@mydomain.com"
$EmailTo = "to@mydomain.com"
$Subject = "Subject text"
$Body = "This is a body of this message"
$SmtpServer = "mail.mydomain.com"
$smtp = New-Object net.mail.smtpclient($SmtpServer)
$smtp.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)


I think everything is clear from the text. In the variable "$SmtpServer", put the address of your SMTP server.

If you want to send emails from other scripts or on a schedule, you'll need to create one more file - a VBS file. The thing is that, for security reasons, PowerShell scripts can't just be run directly, but we can take a workaround - run a VisualBasic script that will in turn launch our desired PS1 script.

mysendmail.vbs

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run("powershell.exe c:\my_path_to_script\mysendmail.ps1")

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