How to send email with PowerShell

Question

I'd like to send email from PowerShell, so I use this command:

$EmailFrom = "[email protected]" $EmailTo = "[email protected]"   $Subject = "today date" $Body = "TODAY SYSTEM DATE=01/04/2016  SYSTEM TIME=11:32:05.50" $SMTPServer = "smtp.mail.yahoo.com" $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)    $SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true     $SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object  System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password")     $SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body) 

This command didn't work for Yahoo mail or Outlook mail, but works for my Gmail. Is there anything wrong that I have done?

Answer 1

Following code snippet really works for me:

$Username = "MyUserName"; $Password = "MyPassword"; $path = "C:\attachment.txt";  function Send-ToEmail([string]$email, [string]$attachmentpath){      $message = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage;     $message.From = "[email protected]";     $message.To.Add($email);     $message.Subject = "subject text here...";     $message.Body = "body text here...";     $attachment = New-Object Net.Mail.Attachment($attachmentpath);     $message.Attachments.Add($attachment);      $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", "587");     $smtp.EnableSSL = $true;     $smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($Username, $Password);     $smtp.send($message);     write-host "Mail Sent" ;      $attachment.Dispose();  } Send-ToEmail  -email "[email protected]" -attachmentpath $path;