Is it possible to send an e-mail from an exchange server trough powershell? I need to send a message every morning when a certain event happens while checking a sql database.
Best regards,
Thijs
Yes it is possible, all you need is SMTP server name
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/send-mailmessage?view=powershell-6
Further, you can schedule the powershell script, daily in task scheduler.
https://blog.netwrix.com/2018/07/03/how-to-automate-powershell-scripts-with-task-scheduler/
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I use a python script to send mails. The script runs a VBA macro.
I'm scheduling the python script to run at a particular time.
Configuration
My trust settings in Outlook has all macros enabled.
I'm running the task with highest priority too.
Problem
I am able to send mails if I run the script manually.
However, when I try to run it via Windows Task Scheduler, mails are not being sent.
Try a different scheduler and see if this works.
For example Splinterware system scheduler.
Trying a different scheduler can help you figure out if the problem is
a setting in the scheduler (like not having the password entered)
or in your Python script (which would affect all schedulers)
There is a way to send emails from Outlook automatically without the use of Task Scheduler. It is outlined neatly here.
It uses recurring reminders, so Outlook must be kept running at all times (but the macro is only executed when the reminder fires).
We have an overweight an bloated email account on Exchange 2007 running on a SBS 2008 which needs emptying, but not deleting. unfortunately there was no monitoring in place and now it's slowing the entire network down (another long story)...
What would be the easiest and most efficient way to remove all emails from the offending email account please?
Thanks
You need to grant access and setup shell scripts in Exchange Management Shell. Just use these shell commands to make your job easier.
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/892-delete-emails-in-exchange-2007
I'm not even sure if what I want is possible, but I'd like to run a Cron job where an email is only sent in certain conditions. I know that you can prevent mail from being sent at all by setting MAILTO to an empty string in the crontab file, but I've searched in several different ways, and can't find anything about sending email conditionally. My end goal is to run a Cron job that periodically checks whether the webserver is running, and if not, restart it. I only want an email if the webserver has to be restarted. I'm writing my Cron jobs in Perl. Is there a Perl command I can use within the job script that will disable the email in certain cases? Thanks for any help you can give me.
Cronjobs will send emails if the command you are running generate output. If you write your script to only send output to STDERR/STDOUT when you want an email, that should accomplish your goal.
There are 2 possibilities to send mails from cron jobs:
From program, that has been started by cron daemon,
From UNIX/Linux mechanism, that can send mail, if a program, that has been started as a cron job, has written something to STDOUT or STDERR.
I don't recommend to use the 2nd possibility. It is inflexible. You can't send mails to different recipients, depending on what alert has happened.
Usage of the 2nd way is rather a bad design. Cron jobs should redirect all their stdout and stderr to an idividual for every cron job log file for possible troubleshooting.
Perl possesses perfect possibilities to send mails, e.g. using MIME::Lite module.
This module is not a core one, so that you might should request sysadmin to install this module, if it's not available.
If you will use the 1st way, then your issue is easy to solve using Perl logic: just send the required mail from your Perl program after this program restarted the web server.
I am trying to send an email from windows task scheduler with Action tab. But How can I include the Last run result in this mail. I am not getting any option along with it. There is an option of attaching the files to the mail. So if an one could help me is there any logs files generated by the task scheduler when a task is being run? if so where can I find the log ?
You might have to redirect the result into a log file.And then send that log as an attachment.
For send as email , there is definitely an attach button.
Is there a way to send message to lync via powershell. My scenario is like this.
My teammate may request for some task and i will initiate the powershell script to complete that task. It will send mail at the end. Instead of mail if it sends message via Lync it will be much more intuitive. Is there a way to do ?
Sure, you'll need to install the Lync SDK first. You can then use powershell to create SDK objects and use them as you would in a .NET application.
This article walks through the process nicely - http://blogs.technet.com/b/csps/archive/2011/05/05/sendim.aspx