I was using nant to send mail and it is working fine - something like
<mail
from="Test#b.c"
tolist="A#b.c"
subject="Test"
mailhost="myhost.mydomain.com"
isbodyhtml="true"
message= "${Test}">
</mail>
I didn't have to use any kind of authentication.
Now when using powershell it seems I am forced to use authentication - something like this would fail:
Send-MailMessage -To $to -From $from -Subject "Test" –Body “Test (body) -SmtpServer "myhost.mydomain.com"
I would get the following message:
Send-MailMessage : No credentials are available in the security package
Am I missing some way to send mails without specifying credentials if the server supports that?
Edit:
I've also tried the answer here to send anonymous mails but it just times out:
send anonymous mails using powershell
Sending mails using Powershell v1 method works fine without authentication as shown here
My Powershell version is 5 yet this is apparently the way to go, unless someone has another idea.
$smtpServer = "ho-ex2010-caht1.exchangeserverpro.net"
$smtpFrom = "reports#exchangeserverpro.net"
$smtpTo = $to
$messageSubject = $subject
$messageBody = $body
$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($smtpFrom,$smtpTo,$messagesubject,$messagebody)
I was looking for another issue and found this question here...
As #AngelicCore already explained one approach,
Here is another one if someone using Outlook dektop app...
The mail sent will appear in your outbox.
using outlook object
Try
{
#Email structure
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
#Email Recipients
$Mail.To = "abc#domain.com;xyz#domain.com"
$Mail.Cc = "tuv#domain.com; pqr#domain.com"
#Email Subject
$date = Get-Date -Format g
$Mail.Subject = "Subject here $date"
#Email Body
$Mail.Body = "Body Here"
#Html Body
$Mail.HTMLBody == "<html> HTML Body Here </html>"
#Email Attachment
$file = "C:\path\xyz.txt"
$Mail.Attachments.Add($file)
$Mail.Send()
Write-Host -foreground green "Mail Sent Successfully"
}
Catch
{
write-host -foreground red $error[0].Exception.Message
}
pause
exit
Related
Good afternoon -
I have a "trigger file" that calls several scripts to run some morning reports. Each called script contains code that attaches a file to an email and sends (via ComObject). If I run each script individually then there all emails send correctly. However, when i run the "trigger file", only a couple of the emails send and I am not receiving any error messages. Any ideas what is happening? I purposely made the trigger file run the scripts concurrently to save time. But is that overloading Outlook?
EDIT: Updated code to include Try/Catch block. There are 8 scripts that run using this template. All 8 successfully complete the excel open/run/save. However, only some of the emails send. And even with this Try/Catch block, no error message is being sent.
#Establish script file locale
$FullPath = “//fullpath/”
$SavePath = “//savepath/”
#Open Excel file
& {
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject excel.application
$Excel.Visible=$False
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($FullPath)
#Run Macro
$app=$Excel.Application
$app.Run("Macro1")
#Save and close Excel
$Excel.Application.DisplayAlerts=$False
$Workbook.SaveAs($SavePath,51)
$Workbook.Close()
$Excel.Quit()
}
#Send email with attachment
Try
{
$EmailSettings=#{
SMTPServer = "smtp"
From = "me#email.com"
To =
#(
"you#email.com"
)
Subject = "Subject"
Attachments = $SavePath
BodyAsHtml = $true
Body =
"<body><p>
Attached is the thing.
</b></p></body>"
}
Send-MailMessage #EmailSettings
}
Catch
{
$Subject = 'ERROR: '+$EmailSettings.Subject
$ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message+' '+$_.Exception.ItemName
Send-MailMessage -From me#email.com -To me#email.com -Subject $Subject -SmtpServer smtp -Body $ErrorMessage
}
I am using Send-MailMessage to email multiple different recipients each with an individual report. I have just been repeating the Send-Mail command with the different attachment paths for each recipient however the problem I am running into since I also have to use -UseSsl -credential I have to authenticate each time a new message is sent. Is there a way to authenticate once without having to do it each time?
Send-MailMessage is a wrapper for .net smtpclient. You can do your custom version of it, for example:
$client = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient
$client.EnableSsl = $true
$client.Host = "smtp.server.com"
$client.Credentials = $creds
foreach ($r in $recipients) {
$from = "from#mail.com"
$to = $r
$msg = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $from, $to
$msg.Subject = "subject"
$msg.Body = "body"
$msg.Attachments.Add("C:\temp\test.html")
$client.Send($msg)
}
We have some powershell automation in place which sends an email with outlook with one email account but we are looking for a way to be able to set the sender email address to a different outlook account we have access to.
I've tried googling and looking round on here and cant seem to find the way of doing it.
here is the code we are using.
$Outlook = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
start-sleep 5
$Mail.subject = ""
$mail.
$Mail.To = ""
$Mail.Cc = ""
$Mail.Body = "Test"
$Mail.Display()
$Mail.Send()
Just use the below Outlook function to send the email. You are actually doing the same over there. Is there any error you are getting ? Anyways, Use the below one:
Follow all the comments in the function for your reference.
Function Global:Send-Email {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$False,Position=0)]
[String]$Address = "user2#domain.com",
[Parameter(Mandatory=$False,Position=1)]
[String]$Subject = "Mail Subject",
[Parameter(Mandatory=$False,Position=2)]
[String]$Body = "MailBody"
)
Begin {
Clear-Host
# Add-Type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook"
}
Process {
# Create an instance Microsoft Outlook
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.To = "$Address"
$Mail.Subject = $Subject
$Mail.Body =$Body
# $Mail.HTMLBody = "HTML BODY"
# $File = "D:\CP\timetable.pdf"
# $Mail.Attachments.Add($File)
$Mail.Send()
} # End of Process section
End {
# Section to prevent error message in Outlook
$Outlook.Quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($Outlook)
$Outlook = $null
} # End of End section!
} # End of function
# Example of using this function
Send-Email #-Address User2#domain.com
Note: If you want to send email from someone's behalf then you have to enable anonymous mail from the connectors or the user should have the permission to send mail from someone's behalf. In that case, you can add one more object as
$mail.From=""
One sample example to send mail from GMAIl as reference.
$From = "YourEmail#gmail.com"
$To = "AnotherEmail#YourDomain.com"
$Cc = "YourBoss#YourDomain.com"
$Attachment = "C:\temp\Some random file.txt"
$Subject = "Email Subject"
$Body = "Insert body text here"
$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
$SMTPPort = "587"
Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Cc $Cc -Subject $Subject `
-Body $Body -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -port $SMTPPort -UseSsl `
-Credential (Get-Credential) -Attachments $Attachment
Hope it helps...
My powershell script currently handles sending an email from the command line to a list of users. I would like to add an attachment to the email and also a list of Cc so all emails don't come through the "To" email parameter. Here is my current function.
function SendEmail
{
$smtpServer = "smtp.server"
$smtpFrom = "PROD <email#gmail.com>"
$smtpTo = "me#gmail.com"
$messageSubject = "Weekly List "+$day
$messagebody = "Hi User, Please find attached document. Thank you."
$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($smtpFrom,$smtpTo,$messageSubject,$messagebody)
}
My attempt was to add a variable called $attachment = "\PathtoFile"
and add $attachment into the Send function, but that didn't work...
Use Send-MailMessage with the Attachments and Cc parameter:
Send-MailMessage -Attachments "C:\path\to\attachment.ext" -Cc "myboss#gmail.com"
You can also specify an encoding (you mentioned special characters):
Send-MailMessage -Encoding UTF8
In general, I would recommend splatting the parameters, so it ends up looking like this:
$MyAttachments = ".\a\relative\path.ext","C:\another\file.ext"
$MailParams = #{
SmtpServer = "smtp.server"
From = "PROD <email#gmail.com>"
To = "me#gmail.com"
Subject = "Weekly List "+$day
Body = "Hi User, Please find attached document. Thank you."
Attachments = $MyAttachments
Encoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
}
Send-MailMessage #MailParams
Need to send email via private smtp server with credential and starttls. I read many tutorials and still cannot establish starttls communication.
My code:
$smtpServer = "smtp.xserver.cz"
#Creating a Mail object
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
#Creating SMTP server object
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer, 25)#587 works
$smtp.EnableSsl = $false
$smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("myuser#xserver.cz","mypassword"); #yes, correct login, tried via Thunderbird
#Email structure
$msg.From = "info#xserver.cz"
$msg.To.Add("testtest#gmail.com")
$msg.subject = "subject"
$msg.IsBodyHTML = $true
$msg.body = "AAA"+"<br /><br />"
$ok=$true
try{
$smtp.Send($msg)
Write-Host "SENT"
}
catch {
Write-Host "`tNOT WORK !!!!!"
$error[0]
$_.Exception.Response
$ok=$false
}
finally{
$msg.Dispose()
}
if($ok){
Write-Host "`tEVERYTHING OK"
}
Need to use .Net objects and class, not third party library, or Send-MailMessage in Powershell, because Send-MailMessage doesn't have atachment sending options.
You're not getting your TLS connect because you've set EnableSsl to $false.
Not sure where you got the idea that Send-MailMessage doesn't have attachment sending options. Sending attachments with Send-MailMailMessage is ridiculously easy. It accepts one or more file names to use as attachments from the pipeline, or through the -Attachments parameter.