Powershell using send-mailmessage - powershell

Question

i have the below code:
$file = Get-ChildItem -Path C:\MonitorTest | where {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-4) }
$message = #{
to="sender#mail.com"
from="monitoring#mail.com"
subject="testing monitoring"
smtpserver="mail.com"
bodyashtml=$true
body="$file.Name"
}
Send-MailMessage #message
the thing i have is that on Body, using "" it prints the content of the variable $file.name in one single line. (New Text Document (2) - Copy.txt New Text Document (2).txt New Text Document (3) - Copy.txt)
if i only select $file.name and run it, it will print it in lines
New Text Document (2) - Copy.txt
New Text Document (2).txt
New Text Document (3) - Copy.txt
if i run the send-mailmessage #message, the email comes thru, but its on one line as if running only "$file.name"
these are the contents of $file:
Directory: C:\MonitorTest
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 8/13/2020 3:57 PM 0 New Text Document (2) - Copy.txt
-a---- 8/13/2020 3:57 PM 0 New Text Document (2).txt
-a---- 8/13/2020 3:57 PM 0 New Text Document (3) - Copy.txt
-a---- 8/13/2020 3:57 PM 0 New Text Document (4) - Copy.txt
-a---- 8/13/2020 3:57 PM 0 New Text Document (5) - Copy.txt
-a---- 8/13/2020 2:13 PM 0 New Text Document.txt
Can anyone help me figure this out please? im running bonkers trying to figure this out.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You are sending as html, so you will need html line breaks <br>, which can be achieved as follows:
$filesHtml = (Get-ChildItem -Path C:\MonitorTest | where {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-4) } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name) -join "<br>" | Out-String
$message = #{
to="sender#mail.com"
from="monitoring#mail.com"
subject="testing monitoring"
smtpserver="mail.com"
bodyashtml=$true
body=$filesHtml
}
Send-MailMessage #message
Or you can send as text:
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path C:\MonitorTest | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-4) } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name | Out-String
$message = #{
to="sender#mail.com"
from="monitoring#mail.com"
subject="testing monitoring"
smtpserver="mail.com"
bodyashtml=$false
body=$files
}
Send-MailMessage #message