Send mail via Gmail with PowerShell V2 s Send-MailMessage

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I m trying to figure out how to use PowerShell V2 s Send-MailMessage with Gmail   Here s what I have so far    ss   New-Object Security SecureString foreach   ch in  password  ToCharArray           ss AppendChar  ch     cred   New-Object Management Automation PSCredential  uid domain com    ss Send-MailMessage  -SmtpServer smtp gmail com -UseSsl -Credential  cred -Body      I get the following error  Send-MailMessage   The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated  The server response was  5 5 1 Authentication Required  Learn  more at At foo ps1 18 char 21       Send-MailMessage  lt  lt  lt  lt               CategoryInfo            InvalidOperation   System Net Mail SmtpClient SmtpClient   Send-MailMessage   SmtpException       FullyQualifiedErrorId   SmtpException Microsoft PowerShell Commands SendMailMessage   Am I doing something wrong  or is Send-MailMessage not fully baked yet  I m on CTP 3    Some additional restrictions    I want this to be non-interactive  so Get-Credential won t work  The user account isn t on the Gmail domain  but a Google Apps registered domain  For this question  I m only interested in the Send-MailMessage cmdlet  Sending mail via the normal  NET API is well understood

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On a Windows 8 1 machine I got Send-MailMessage to send an email with an attachment through Gmail using the following script    EmFrom    user gmail com   username    user gmail com   pwd    YOURPASSWORD   EmTo    recipient theiremail com   Server    smtp gmail com   port   587  Subj    Test   Bod    Test 123   Att    c  Filename FileType   securepwd   ConvertTo-SecureString  pwd -AsPlainText -Force  cred   New-Object -TypeName System Management Automation PSCredential -ArgumentList  username   securepwd Send-MailMessage -To  EmTo -From  EmFrom -Body  Bod -Subject  Subj -Attachments  Att -SmtpServer  Server -port  port -UseSsl  -Credential  cred

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I m not sure you can change port numbers with Send-MailMessage since Gmail works on port 587  Anyway  here s how to send email through Gmail with  NET SmtpClient    smtpClient   New-Object system net mail smtpClient  smtpClient Host    smtp gmail com   smtpClient Port   587  smtpClient EnableSsl    true  smtpClient Credentials    Net NetworkCredential  Get-Credential GmailUserID   smtpClient Send  GmailUserID gmail com    yourself somewhere com    test subject    test message

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I had massive problems with getting any of those scripts to work with sending mail in powershell  Turned out you need to create an app-password for your gmail-account to authenticate in the script  Now it works flawlessly

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Here s my PowerShell Send-MailMessage sample for Gmail     Tested and working solution    EmailFrom    notifications somedomain com   EmailTo    me earth com   Subject    Notification from XYZ   Body    this is a notification from XYZ Notifications     SMTPServer    smtp gmail com   SMTPClient   New-Object Net Mail SmtpClient  SmtpServer  587   SMTPClient EnableSsl    true  SMTPClient Credentials   New-Object System Net NetworkCredential  username    password     SMTPClient Send  EmailFrom   EmailTo   Subject   Body    Just change  EmailTo  and username password in  SMTPClient Credentials    Do not include  gmail com in your username

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I agree with Christian Muggli s solution  although at first I still got the error that Scott Weinstein reported  How you get past that is   EITHER first login to Gmail from the machine this will run on  using the account specified   It is not necessary to add any Google sites to the Trusted Sites zone  even if Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is enabled    OR  on your first attempt  you will get the error  and your Gmail account will get a notice about suspicious login  so follow their instructions to allow future logins from the machine this will run on

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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

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Send email with attachment using PowerShell -         EmailTo    udit043 ur gmail com      abc domain com        EmailFrom    udit821 gmail com      xyz gmail com        Subject    zx     subject        Body    Test Body      Body of message        SMTPServer    smtp gmail com          filenameAndPath    G  abc jpg      Attachment        SMTPMessage   New-Object System Net Mail MailMessage  EmailFrom   EmailTo   Subject   Body         attachment   New-Object System Net Mail Attachment  filenameAndPath         SMTPMessage Attachments Add  attachment         SMTPClient   New-Object Net Mail SmtpClient  SmtpServer  587          SMTPClient EnableSsl    true         SMTPClient Credentials   New-Object System Net NetworkCredential  udit821 gmail com    xxxxxxxx       xxxxxx-password        SMTPClient Send  SMTPMessage

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Here it is    filename      c  scripts scott test9999 xls     smtpserver      smtp gmail com     msg   New-Object Net Mail MailMessage  att   New-Object Net Mail Attachment  filename   smtp   New-Object Net Mail SmtpClient  smtpServer    smtp EnableSsl    True  smtp Credentials   New-Object System Net NetworkCredential    username        password here        Put username without the  GMAIL com or      gmail com  msg From      username gmail com     msg To Add    boss job com      msg Subject      Monthly Report     msg Body      Good MorningATTACHED     msg Attachments Add  att   smtp Send  msg    Let me know if it helps you San  Also use the send-mailmessage also at Www techjunkie tv  For that way also that I think is way better and pure to use

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This should fix your problem    credentials   New-Object Management Automation PSCredential    mailserver yourcompany com         password      ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force    Then use the credential in your call to Send-MailMessage -From  From -To  To -Body  Body  Body -SmtpServer   smtpServer URI  -Credential  credentials -Verbose -UseSsl

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I haven t used PowerShell V2 s Send-MailMessage  but I have used System Net Mail SMTPClient class in V1 to send messages to a Gmail account for demo purposes  This might be overkill  but I run an SMTP server on my Windows nbsp Vista laptop  see this link   If you re in an enterprise you will already have a mail relay server  and this step isn t necessary  Having an SMTP server I m able to send email to my Gmail account with the following code    smtpmail    System Net Mail SMTPClient   127 0 0 1    smtpmail Send  myacct gmail com    myacct gmail com    Test Message    Message via local SMTP

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I used Christian s Feb 12 solution and I m also just beginning to learn PowerShell   As far as attachments  I was poking around with Get-Member learning how it works and noticed that Send   has two definitions    the second definition takes a System Net Mail MailMessage object which allows for Attachments and many more powerful and useful features like Cc and Bcc   Here s an example that has attachments  to be mixed with his above example      append to Christian s code above --   emailMessage   New-Object System Net Mail MailMessage  emailMessage From    EmailFrom  emailMessage To Add  EmailTo   emailMessage Subject    Subject  emailMessage Body    Body  emailMessage Attachments Add  C  Test txt    SMTPClient Send  emailMessage    Enjoy

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After many tests and a long search for solutions  I found a functional and interesting script code at  PSTip Sending emails using your Gmail account    param          SmtpServer    smtp gmail com      Port   587     UseSsl    true     Credential     you gmail com      From    you gmail com      To    someone somewhere com      Subject    Sending emails through Gmail with Send-MailMessage      Body    Check out the PowerShellMagazine com website       Attachments    D  articles csv     Send-MailMessage  param

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I just had the same problem and ran into this post  It actually helped me to get it running with the native Send-MailMessage command-let and here is my code    cred   Get-Credential Send-MailMessage         -SmtpServer  smtp gmail com  -UseSsl -Credential  cred -Port 587    However  in order to have Gmail allowing me to use the SMTP server  I had to log in into my Gmail account and under this link https   www google com settings security set the  Access for less secure apps  to  Enabled   Then finally it did work

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