Send SMTP Mail Message with BCC

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posted by Thomas Lee

01-18-2009

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Send SMTP Mail Message with BCC

<# 
.SYNOPSIS 
    Send mail to BCC using PowerShell 
.DESCRIPTION 
    This script is a re-developed MSDN Sample using PowerShell. It creates 
    an email message then sends it with a BCC. 
.NOTES 
    File Name  : Send-BCCMail.ps1 
    Author     : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk 
    Requires   : PowerShell V2 CTP3 
.LINK 
    Original Sample Posted to 
    http://www.pshscripts.blospot.com 
    MSDN Sample and details at: 
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.mailaddresscollection.aspx 
.EXAMPLE 
    PS C:\foo> .\Send-BCCMail.ps1 
    Sending an e-mail message to The PowerShell Doctor and "Thomas Lee" <tfl@reskit.net> 
#> 
 
### 
# Start Script 
### 
 
# Create from, to, bcc and the message strucures 
$from    = New-Object system.net.Mail.MailAddress "tfl@cookham.net", "Thomas Lee" 
$to      = new-object system.net.mail.mailaddress "doctordns@gmail.com", "The PowerShell Doctor" 
$bcc     = New-Object system.Net.Mail.mailaddress "tfl@reskit.net", "Thomas Lee" 
$message = New-Object system.Net.Mail.MailMessage $from, $to 
 
# Populate message 
$message.Subject = "Using the SmtpClient class and PowerShell." 
$message.Body    = "Using this feature, you can send an e-mail message from an" 
$message.Body   += "application very easily. `nEven better, you do it with PowerShell!" 
 
# Add BCC 
$message.Bcc.Add($bcc); 
 
# Create SMTP Client 
$server = "localhost" 
$client = New-Object system.Net.Mail.SmtpClient $server 
$client.Credentials = [system.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials 
"Sending an e-mail message to {0} and {1}" -f $to.DisplayName, $message.Bcc.ToString() 
 
# send the message 
try { 
    $client.Send($message); 
}   
catch { 
"Exception caught in CreateBccTestMessage(): {0}" -f $Error[0] 
} 

Filed under: mail, SMTP, .NET

This script creates an SMTP Mail message, with To;, From: and BCC:, then sends it using a local SMTP Server.