Sending an HTML Email through PowerShell-CodePudding

I have the following code that is sending an email, but the body element is emailing with all of the HTML formatting such as <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>HTML TABLE</title> </head><body> <h2>Folders older than 30 days</h2> (note that is not the whole email. For the entire email see below)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>HTML TABLE</title> </head><body> <h2>Folders older than 30 days</h2>
<div>
    Folders were removed on - now
    <br></br>
    Location: \\Server01\XFER\Cory
</div>
<br></br> <table> </table> </body></html>

Photo of Email

How do I get the HTML to work?

Here is the code:

$EmailFrom = “[email protected]”

$EmailTo = “[email protected]”

$Subject = “Test”

$body = ConvertTo-Html -PreContent @"
 <h2>Folders older than 30 days </h2>
<div>
    Folders were removed now
    <br> </br>
    Location: here
</div>
 <br> </br>
"@

$SMTPServer = “smtp.outlook.com”

$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)

$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true

$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "powershell")

$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body )

CodePudding user response：

The smtpClient method 'send' supports an object of the type mailMessage:

Send(MailMessage)   
Sends the specified message to an SMTP server for delivery.

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There you can specify the property IsBodyHmtl.

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But as you are on PowerShell you could simply use the cmdlet send-mailmessage there you have the parameter 'BodyAsHtml'.

CodePudding user response：

Try this:

$EmailFrom = “[email protected]”

$EmailTo = “[email protected]”

$Subject = “PowerShell Email”

$body = ConvertTo-Html -PreContent @"
 <h2>Folders older than 30 days </h2>
<div>
    Folders were removed now
    <br> </br>
    Location: here
</div>
 <br> </br>
"@

$EmailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$EmailMessage.From = $EmailFrom
$EmailMessage.To.Add( $EmailTo)
$EmailMessage.Subject = $Subject
$EmailMessage.IsBodyHtml = $true
$EmailMessage.Body = $body

$SMTPServer = “smtp.outlook.com”

$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)

$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true

$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object          
System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "P@ssw0rd")

$SMTPClient.Send($EmailMessage)