Issue related to Powershell send-mail - powershell

Question

I am using powershell send-mail command to send mail. It is working fine. But I cant see the mail which I sent in "sent items". I can see it if I sent mail manually, but I am not able to understand why it is not visible if i sent a mail using send-mail command.
Thanks

Answer 1

I have a function which creates an Outlook "Draft". I do it this way so that the e-mail can be reviewed before hitting "Send". This may not work for you; perhaps you'd want to add a send command at the end. But what you describe wanting to do is probably going to need outlook available on the system which is executing the commands.
It will check to see if you have a mail profile set up first, but otherwise it's not super-robust.
Function Compose-Email {
Param ([String]$recipients, [string]$subject, [string]$body)
$reg="HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles"
$child=(Get-ChildItem -Path $reg).name
if (!((Get-ChildItem -Path $reg).name)) {
Write-Error "No Mail Profile found! Cannot compose Draft."
}
else {
$olFolderDrafts = 16
$ol = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application
$ns = $ol.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
# call the save method to save the email in the drafts folder
$mail = $ol.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.Recipients.Add($recipients)
$Mail.Subject = $subject
$Mail.Body = $body
$Mail.save()
$mail.display()
}
}