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geco17
geco17

Reputation: 5294

powershell email body from file

I'm trying to read the content of a text file into a string variable with powershell in order to use it to send an email (via smtp).

Using Get-Content I have no problem reading the contents of a file into a variable:

$body = Get-Content 'C:\somewhere\some-file.html'

The problem is

Send-MailMessage -To [recipient] -From [sender] -Subject [subject] -Body $body -SmtpServer [ip address]

fails with the message

Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to 'System.String' required by 'Body' parameter. Specified method not supported.

How can I get the file contents into the variable as a String? I've tried converting the resulting Object[] array to a String by piping the $body variable with Convert-String but with no success.

Edit

To anyone looking for a one-liner, with the help of Mark's answer below here it is:

Send-MailMessage -To [email protected] -From [email protected] -Subject "Test" -Body (Get-Content 'C:\somewhere\some-file.html' | Out-String) -SmtpServer 123.456.789.012 -BodyAsHtml

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5195

Answers (1)

Mark Wragg
Mark Wragg

Reputation: 23355

Try:

$body = Get-Content 'C:\somewhere\some-file.html' | Out-String

The problem is probably that Get-Content is creating an array of strings and the -Body parameter is expecting a single string.

The Out-String cmdlet I think would convert it to a single string.

Upvotes: 2

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