# How to send an email with an attachment using PowerShell?

**Windows PowerShell** is mostly known as a command-line shell used to complete administrative tasks in Windows and the apps that run on it. It is also a scripting language that allows you to create _**cmdlets**_ – lightweight commands to perform specific functions.

**Send-MailMessage** is an example of a cmdlet to send emails from PowerShell.

There are other methods to handle this as well.:

### The simplest script to send an email with PowerShell with Attachment.

Here is a one-line script based on the Send-MailMessage cmdlet you can use to send an email from PowerShell using SMTP protocol with an attachment.

```
$User = "sks@leapwork.com"
$File = "C:\Users\SauravKumarSinha\Desktop\Password.txt"
$cred=New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $User, (Get-Content $File | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force)
$EmailTo = "sks@leapwork.com"
$EmailFrom = "sks@leapwork.com"
$Subject = "Email Subject"
$Body = "Email body text"
$SMTPServer = “outlook.office365.com"
$filenameAndPath = "C:\Users\SauravKumarSinha\Desktop\Saurav.png"
$SMTPMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage($EmailFrom,$EmailTo,$Subject,$Body)
$attachment = New-Object System.Net.Mail.Attachment($filenameAndPath)
$SMTPMessage.Attachments.Add($attachment)
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($cred.UserName, $cred.Password);
$SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage)
```

**File: You need to specify the password file Path. Typically Notepad Password.txt File format could be in the below format.**

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### Description of the above-used parameter in the PowerShell script:

|     |     |
| --- | --- |
| **Parameter** | **Description** |
| **-To** | The email address of a recipient or recipients |
| **-Bcc** | The email address of a BCC recipient or recipients |
| **-Cc** | The email address of a CC recipient or recipients |
| **-From** | Sender’s email address |
| **-Subject** | Email subject |
| **-Body** | Email body text |
| **-BodyAsHtml** | Defines that email body text contains HTML |
| **-Attachments** | Filenames to be attached and the path to them |
| **-Credential** | Authentication to send the email from the account |
| **-SmtpServer** | Name of the SMTP server |
| **-Port** | Port of the SMTP server |

### Integration and Execution of this script in Windows PowerShell ISE :

### Leapwork Integration with this PowerShell script:

### Success Email will be triggered as shown below:

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For clarification, please contact our [Priority Support](mailto:prioritysupport@leapwork.com).