Sending SMTP e-mails through PowerShell
As an Exchange administrator, you will probably need an automated solution for sending e-mails from your PowerShell scripts. Whether it's for sending notifications to users in a specific database or e-mailing the output of your scripts to a reporting mailbox, the transmission of messages like these will prove very useful in performing common day-to-day administrative scripting tasks. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can send SMTP e-mail messages from PowerShell to the recipients in your Exchange organization.
How to do it...
PowerShell v2 and later includes a core cmdlet that can be used to send e-mail messages via SMTP to one or more recipients. Use the following syntax to send an e-mail message:
Send-MailMessage -To user1@contoso.com ` -From administrator@contoso.com ` -Subject "Test E-mail" ` -Body "This is just a test" ` -SmtpServer ex01.contoso.com
How it works...
In PowerShell v1, the Send-MailMessage cmdlet didn't exist. In the early...
