Send mail via Gmail with PowerShell V2's Send-MailMessage

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to use PowerShell V2\'s Send-MailMessage with Gmail.

Here\'s what I have so far.

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Answer 1

I am really new to PowerShell, and I was searching about gmailing from PowerShell. I took what you folks did in previous answers, and modified it a bit and have come up with a script which will check for attachments before adding them, and also to take an array of recipients.

## Send-Gmail.ps1 - Send a gmail message
## By Rodney Fisk - xizdaqrian@gmail.com
## 2 / 13 / 2011

# Get command line arguments to fill in the fields
# Must be the first statement in the script
param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
               Position = 0,
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
    [Alias('From')] # This is the name of the parameter e.g. -From user@mail.com
    [String]$EmailFrom, # This is the value [Don't forget the comma at the end!]

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
               Position = 1,
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
    [Alias('To')]
    [String[]]$Arry_EmailTo,

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
               Position = 2,
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
    [Alias('Subj')]
    [String]$EmailSubj,

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
               Position = 3,
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
    [Alias('Body')]
    [String]$EmailBody,

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $false,
               Position = 4,
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
    [Alias('Attachment')]
    [String[]]$Arry_EmailAttachments
)

# From Christian @ stackoverflow.com
$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SMTPClient($SmtpServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSSL = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("GMAIL_USERNAME", "GMAIL_PASSWORD");

# From Core @ stackoverflow.com
$emailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$emailMessage.From = $EmailFrom
foreach ($recipient in $Arry_EmailTo)
{
    $emailMessage.To.Add($recipient)
}
$emailMessage.Subject = $EmailSubj
$emailMessage.Body = $EmailBody
# Do we have any attachments?
# If yes, then add them, if not, do nothing
if ($Arry_EmailAttachments.Count -ne $NULL)
{
    $emailMessage.Attachments.Add()
}
$SMTPClient.Send($emailMessage)

Of course, change the GMAIL_USERNAME and GMAIL_PASSWORD values to your particular user and password.