Send email from Powershell with attachment

This post  describes how to call  to add an email attachment using Powershell.

In an earlier post - SQL Server – Send email using Powershell – the new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient() Class was used.

To add an email attachment , use New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and New-Object System.Net.Mail.Attachment, which are part of the .Net Framework

The example script includes creating the variables, the function and calling the function .

$emailFrom = "[email protected]"
$emailTo = "[email protected]"
$subject = "SQLServer-DBA.com: Powershell Function calling an SMTP server with attachment"
$body = "SQLServer-DBA.com : Send an email through SMTP in Powershell with attachment "
$smtpServer = "mysmtpserver"
$filePath = "C:\sql_server_health_sqlserver_jobs_2012-02.html"


Function sendEmail([string]$emailFrom, [string]$emailTo, [string]$subject,[string]$body,[string]$smtpServer,[string]$filePath)
{
#initiate message
$email = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage 
$email.From = $emailFrom
$email.To.Add($emailTo)
$email.Subject = $subject
$email.Body = $body
# initiate email attachment 
$emailAttach = New-Object System.Net.Mail.Attachment $filePath
$email.Attachments.Add($emailAttach) 
#initiate sending email 
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($email)
}

#Call Function 
sendEmail $emailFrom $emailTo $subject $body $smtpServer $filePath

See Also

Powershell - run script on all sql servers

Author: Jack Vamvas (http://www.sqlserver-dba.com)
Author: Tom Collins (http://www.sqlserver-dba.com)