SharePoint: Send Mail by using Powershell

Powershell has great functionalities. One of those is the sendmail function. We used it like a timer job for reminding people to do something special. We built a small script which checks certain list items in SharePoint and fetches the title, the create date and the author. If the item is older than 30 days, the author gets a reminder to do a task on the item.

The powershell is stored as scheduled task in windows. But i’d like to share the sendmail function with you.

$to = "you@mailadress.com"
$subject = 'Subject Text'
$body = 'Body Text'

#SMTP server name (which is configured in SharePoint)
$smtpServer = "SMTPServer"
#Creating a Mail object
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
#Creating SMTP server object
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
#Email structure
$msg.From = "yoursender@mailadress.com"
$msg.To.Add($to.Email)
$msg.subject = $subject
$msg.body = $body
$msg.isBodyHTML = $true
#Sending email
$smtp.Send($msg)

That’s it. Now you can put some values from the list into the body or subject or even the receiver address (to). Enjoy it.