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Reputation: 16226

Powershell send-mailmessage failing

I am running this PowerShell command from a cmd .bat script. It appears to be complaining about 'Request' as an argument. The only 'Request' in the command is inside quotes. What's going on?

M:>powershell send-mailmessage -to "[email protected]" -from "[email protected]" -subject "Standard Extract Request" -SmtpServer "mail.company.com" -attachment "file.txt"

Send-MailMessage : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Request'.
At line:1 char:1
+ send-mailmessage -to [email protected] -from [email protected] -subject Stan ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Send-MailMessage], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SendMailMessage

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5462

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200193

If you want to run PowerShell statements from CMD you must enclose the entire statement in double quotes. Use single quotes inside that string wherever possible.

powershell.exe -Command "Send-MailMessage -To '[email protected]' -From '[email protected]' -Subject 'Standard Extract Request' -SmtpServer 'mail.company.com' -Attachment 'file.txt'"

Upvotes: 2

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