Sending Simple SMTP Mail

by Mar 31, 2009

You need to notify an admin that something happened or something is finished and would like to send a quick e-mail from inside your PowerShell scripts. Here is a simple wrapper allowing you to use any standard SMTP server to send simple e-mails:

function Send-mySMTP {
  param($server, $recipient, $username, $password, $sender, $title, $body)
  $SmtpClient = new-object system.net.mail.smtpClient
  $smtpclient.Host = $server
  $Credentials = new-object System.Net.networkCredential

  $Credentials.domain = ""
  $Credentials.UserName = $username
  $Credentials.Password = $password
  $SMTPClient.Credentials = $Credentials
  $smtpclient.Send($sender, $recipient, $title, $body)
}