Largely taken from here and here, the following example shows how to use PowerShell to send email, using the Gmail smtp server as an example:
$From = "YourEmail@domain.com" $To = "AnotherEmail@domain.com" $Cc = "SomeoneElse@domain.com" $Attachment = "C:\Path\to\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
Fill in the variables and go!
If you would like to pass your credentials in the script (not the most secure way to do things…), add two more variables, $password and $mycreds, and substitute the (Get-Credential) for $mycreds:
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "YourPlainTextPassword" -AsPlainText -Force $mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("YourUsername", $password) Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Subject $Subject -Body $Body -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -port $SMTPPort -UseSsl -Credential $mycreds -Attachments $Attachment