Windows script to send email with attachment




















It attaches the documents properly however the email doesn't contain the body. I am not sure why. My actual requirement is to create a html body with different attachment types. I am unable to achieve this.

Indeed, I too don't seem to be able to get the body, only the attachment. I'm pretty sure it used to work though, so I'm checking what's going on. So it seems there were formatting problems caused by the syntax highlighter. That said, you should be able to send an HTML email with attachments. Skip to content Home About Feed. Some notes on veth interfaces ». Send email with attachment s from script or command line Posted by waldner on 22 May , pm.

There are many ways, but let's focus on how to do it with commonly installed programs first. Filed under linux , shell , tips , worksforme Tagged attachment , mail , mailx , metasend , mpack , mutt , sendemail , sendmail , swaks. Reddy Jahnavi Tenepalli says:. April 6, at Amol Aranke says:. March 8, at March 13, at Miguel says:. June 8, at June 9, at Christiaan says:. May 23, at Netaji says:. March 17, at Evandro Giachetto says:. January 22, at January 24, at Pyero says:.

If so, which? No i don't PimpJuiceIT, close voters' perception of "too broad" is influenced by the presence of a good, simple answer that demonstrates that it isn't so broad. Go for it. So much for "simple" answer now, right!! PimpJuiceIT, yeah, nobody in his right mind would answer a question that requires developing an app to solve the problem, so it's good that you demonstrated a trivial solution.

I had to vote to reopen to ensure that this doesn't get deleted. Maybe it will even attract another answer. BTW your answer is a bit brief. You might want to beef it up by adding the meat from the bare links at the end. Show 5 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. I'm using the Batch Script static and self-deleting from this answer, and I'm able to send an attachment as a CSV and also have the same CSV file be read raw as the body of the email so the user can see the content on their phone with out opening the CSV file but has the option to open the attachment in Excel.

The only thing I can't figure out how to do is ADD additional recipients. I've tried just adding to the existing line. I'll need to check and test to confirm but I think it is as simple as one of these two examples Try one of those two and let me know. If that doesn't work, I'll have to check later on a machine I have this logic running. In the PowerShell world such functions are called cmdlets. Here is an official documentation of PowerShell Email.

Automation namespace. With a small change to the above script we can send rich formatted emails in the HTML format. It is easy! See the example below. Notice that the body text contains HTML markup. There is an italic and bold text. As you can imagine, it will appear with a cursive font or as a thicker text than the surrounding text.

Here is an HTML code:. And this is how it looks in the final email: The text now can be bold or italic. But of course you need to test it out yourself, because email clients and the internet are evolving rapidly, and the things that work today, may not work at the time of reading this article. The obvious choice is to use the Windows built-in Task Scheduler. It does its job, if you need to start a task on a simple schedule, but if you need to react on local files or on remote files that are located on an FTP server, you may need to use the commercial solution.

This is how it looks when the quotes are changed, and the command is ready to be launched from Scheduled Tasks or from the Windows command line:.

As you may noticed the official Microsoft documentation article of the PowerShell script says:. The Send-MailMessage cmdlet is obsolete. This cmdlet does not guarantee secure connections to SMTP servers.

While there is no immediate replacement available in PowerShell, we recommend you do not use Send-MailMessage. Because no one is sniffing your local network traffic. But if you are planning to use the PowerShell on the Internet to send out emails, I recommend to use the app called Command Line Email.

It is a ready-to-use alternative, that is updated together with Windows Update. To use the automation without writing a single line of code, I recommend the intelligent automation solution called Automation Workshop. It is a Windows app that can automate any Windows tasks including email sending. It is available as a Free to try version or a Free for non-commercial use edition.



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