Powershell Script to send email after validation - powershell

Question

I have a Powershell script that logs the result to a text file (this is working fine), now I need to update it to send email instead of a Log file (see actual script below). I'm kind of a new to powershell, hopefully you can help me out.
# details of the script
# if a file "FILE.400" is found and check the modified date, it will send a log file (txt file)
# need to update the script, to send email instead of a log file
$svr=$env:ComputerName
$date=[datetime]::Today.ToString('MM-dd-yyyy')
$filename = "FILE.400"
$DestLogs1 = "E:\sample\pfupdatedfin-$date.txt"
$DestLogs2 = "E:\sample\pfoutdatedfin-$date.txt"
$SrcPath = "E:\sample\$filename"
If ((Get-ChildItem $SrcPath).LastWriteTime -gt $date)
{
$date | Out-File $DestLogs1
Write-Output "Found latest FILE.400 file" | Out-File $DestLogs1 -Append
(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $SrcPath).LastWriteTime | Out-File $DestLogs1 -Append
}
Else
{
Write-Output "FILE.400 - is not updated, please verify " | Out-File $DestLogs2
(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $SrcPath).LastWriteTime | Out-File $DestLogs2 -Append
}

Answer 1

Send-MailMessageis pretty easy to use. The online documentation for cmdlets is very easy to find. Just enter the name of the cmdlet in your favorite search engine. Or use the Get-Help cmdlet. Here is an example how to use it just fille the Variables reasonably :
Send-MailMessage -From $From -To $To -Subject $Subject -Body $Body -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -Port $SMTPPort -Credential $Credential # -UseSsl:$UseSsl
-useSsl is a switch so it is not necessary unless it's $true. If you want to provide a variable to a switch parameter, don't use a whitespace but a : in between.
Credentials in Powershell are stored in credential objects. You can't just use a plain text password. However don't think they are stored extremly save since the password can be easly extracted if you know how. Here is how you create the necessary credential object:
$SecPw = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $Password -Force
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $UserName,$SecPw

Answer 2

the script is working as expected, in my Home network
$svr=$env:ComputerName
$date=[datetime]::Today.ToString('MM-dd-yyyy')
$filename = "FILE.400"
$DestLogs1 = "E:\sample\pfupdatedfin-$date.txt"
$DestLogs2 = "E:\sample\pfoutdatedfin-$date.txt"
$SrcPath = "E:\sample\$filename"
# email settings
$MyEmail = "myemail#gmail.com"
$SMTP = "smtp.gmail.com"
$To = "samplereceiver#gmail.com"
$Subject1 = "JDA-Alert || Found FILE.400 file - Successful"
$Body1 = "JDA-Alert || Found FILE.400 file - Successful"
$Subject2 = "JDA-Alert || FILE.400 file - Outdated File"
$Body2 = "JDA-Alert || FILE.400 file - Outdated File"
$Creds = (Get-Credential -Credential "$MyEmail")
If ((Get-ChildItem $SrcPath).LastWriteTime -gt $date)
{
Start-Sleep 2
Send-MailMessage -To $To -From $MyEmail -Subject $Subject1 -Body $Body1 -SmtpServer $SMTP -Credential $Creds -UseSsl -Port 587 -DeliveryNotificationOption Never
}
Else
{
Start-Sleep 2
Send-MailMessage -To $To -From $MyEmail -Subject $Subject2 -Body $Body2 -SmtpServer $SMTP -Credential $Creds -UseSsl -Port 587 -DeliveryNotificationOption Never
}