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Use a .HTM file as a body of an email sent via PowerShell

Hi,
I use powershell to generate an HTM report that i want to send over to my users via Powershell.
Thing is that I dont want to send it as an attachment but as the body of the mail I'm sending to my users.
There are lots of PS1 scripts out there to send mail via powershell but I cant get any of them to send an HTM formatted mail with the HTM file as the body.
Instead i just get an email with the below content:
Can you help?


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <style>BODY{background-color:peachpuff;}TABLE{border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;border-collapse: collapse;}TH{border-width: 1px;padding: 0px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;background-color:palegoldenrod}TH{border-width: 1px;padding: 0px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;background-color:palegoldenrod}</style> </head><body> <H2>Mail ITem Count Harts</H2> <table> <colgroup> <col> <col> <col> <col> <col> <col> </colgroup> <tr><th>From: 04/24/2009 10:09:17</th><th>To:04/25/2009 10:09:17 </th><th>there were</th><th>4</th><th>E-Mail's To</th><th>mail accountname </th></tr> </table></body></html>
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I hve tried a normal as well an email with attachment  using powershell
both use plain text
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There's flag for this in the MailMessage Class (IsBodyHTML property), going to see if it works and I'll pop in a sample.

Chris
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Wow chris your the best!
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Thanks Chris, ill try it out and let you know..
Thanks,
Jason.
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chris,
To add a subject line i'd just modify :
$MailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage($From, $To)
to be
$MailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage($From, $To,$subject)
correct?
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Jason.
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Not according to the documentation :) The constructor for MailMessage is limited to To / From details.

Instead try:

$MailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage($From, $To)
$MailMessage.Subject = "Your Subject"
$MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = $True
$MailMessage.Body = $HTMLBody

Chris
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Oops I take it back, and you're right. I missed the last constructor and it should work with your version as well.

In fact it should work with:

$MailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage($From, $To, $Subject, $Body)

So we only have to set IsBodyHtml outside of the constructor.

Chris
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Chris Dent is the Man!