Email sending using PowerShell

Question

I am trying to send the mail from PowerShell.

$EmailFrom = "[email protected]" $EmailTo = "[email protected]" $Subject = "Subject" $Body = "Body" $filenameAndPath = "C:\Desktop\EE.txt" $SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com" $SMTPMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body) $attachment = New-Object System.Net.Mail.Attachment($filenameAndPath) $SMTPMessage.Attachments.Add($attachment) $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587) $SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true $SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password"); $SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage)

When I run this code I get the following exception:

 Exception calling "Send" with "1" argument(s): "Failure sending mail." At line:13 char:1 + $SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage) + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

How can I make $SMTPClient.Send() work correctly?

Fazer87 · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-31 12:33:10Z

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Is Send-MailMessage not an option for you?

You could do the following:

$EmailFrom = "[email protected]" $EmailTo = "[email protected]" $Subject = "Subject" $Body = "Body" $filenameAndPath = "C:\Desktop\EE.txt" $SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com" Send-MailMessage -From $EmailFrom -To $EmailTo -Subject $Subject -body $Body -Attachments $filenameAndPath -SmtpServer $SMTPServer

answered Jan 31, 2019 at 12:33

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Suneel Kumar Over a year ago

Thanks for response. i am new to powershell. As you said i proceeded further but no luck i received the below error. Please help me.

Suneel Kumar Over a year ago

Thanks for response. As you said i proceeded further but no luck i received the below error. Please help me. Send-MailMessage : The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. r76sm7795282pfb.69 - gsmtp At line:8 char:1 + Send-MailMessage -From $EmailFrom -To $EmailTo -Subject $Subject -bod ... + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient:SmtpClient) [Send-MailMessage], SmtpException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SendMailMessage

shawnzzzy · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-31 19:28:40Z

Would this example work?

############################################################################## $From = "[email protected]" $To = "[email protected]" $Cc = "[email protected]" $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 ##############################################################################

Notice that it asks for credentials and also specifies to UseSSL. It's from https://www.pdq.com/blog/powershell-send-mailmessage-gmail/

Greg · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-28 14:59:42Z

I have found when using Powershell script to send emails in Gmail you have to first log into the Gmail account and allow the location/IP address of the sending PC to send Emails. From the same PC running the script log into Gmail and there should be a security email. Click allow and then test.

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