Powershell send-mailmessage - email to multiple recipients

Question

I have this powershell script to sending emails with attachments, but when I add multiple recipients, only the first one gets the message. I\'ve read the documentation and s

Answer 1

Just creating a Powershell array will do the trick

$recipients = @("Marcel <marcel@turie.eu>", "Marcelt <marcel@nbs.sk>")

The same approach can be used for attachments

$attachments = @("$PSScriptRoot\image003.png", "$PSScriptRoot\image004.jpg")

Answer 2

$recipients = "Marcel <marcel@turie.eu>, Marcelt <marcel@nbs.sk>"

is type of string you need pass to send-mailmessage a string[] type (an array):

[string[]]$recipients = "Marcel <marcel@turie.eu>", "Marcelt <marcel@nbs.sk>"

I think that not casting to string[] do the job for the coercing rules of powershell:

$recipients = "Marcel <marcel@turie.eu>", "Marcelt <marcel@nbs.sk>"

is object[] type but can do the same job.

Answer 3

You must first convert the string to a string array, like this:

$recipients = "Marcel <marcel@turie.eu>,Marcelt <marcel@nbs.sk>"
[string[]]$To = $recipients.Split(',')

Then use Send-MailMessage like this:

Send-MailMessage -From "primasfrb@nbs.sk" -To $To -subject "New files" -body "$teloadmin" -BodyAsHtml -priority High -dno onSuccess, onFailure -smtpServer 192.168.170.61

Answer 4

to send a .NET / C# powershell eMail use such a structure:

for best behaviour create a class with a method like this

 using (PowerShell PowerShellInstance = PowerShell.Create())
            {
                PowerShellInstance.AddCommand("Send-MailMessage")
                                  .AddParameter("SMTPServer", "smtp.xxx.com")
                                  .AddParameter("From", "xxx@xxx.com")
                                  .AddParameter("Subject", "xxx Notification")
                                  .AddParameter("Body", body_msg)
                                  .AddParameter("BodyAsHtml")
                                  .AddParameter("To", recipients);

                // invoke execution on the pipeline (ignore output) --> nothing will be displayed
                PowerShellInstance.Invoke();
            }              

Whereby these instance is called in a function like:

        public void sendEMailPowerShell(string body_msg, string[] recipients)

Never forget to use a string array for the recepients, which can be look like this:

string[] reportRecipient = { 
                        "xxx <xxx.Fercher@xxx.com>",
                        "xxx <xxx@xxx.com>"
                        };

body_msg

this message can be overgiven as parameter to the method itself, HTML coding enabled!!

recipients

never forget to use a string array in case of multiple recipients, otherwise only the last address in the string will be used!!!

calling the function can look like this:

        mail reportMail = new mail(); //instantiate from class
        reportMail.sendEMailPowerShell(reportMessage, reportRecipient); //msg + email addresses

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Answer 5

To define an array of strings it is more comfortable to use $var = @('User1 ', 'User2 ').

$servername = hostname
$smtpserver = 'localhost'
$emailTo = @('username1 <user1@dom.com>', 'username2<user2@dom.com>')
$emailFrom = 'SomeServer <user3@dom.com>'
Send-MailMessage -To $emailTo -Subject 'Low available memory' -Body 'Warning' -SmtpServer $smtpserver -From $emailFrom

Answer 6

That's right, each address needs to be quoted. If you have multiple addresses listed on the command line, the Send-MailMessage likes it if you specify both the human friendly and the email address parts.