How to make log contents display with nice formatting in email using powershell?

I'm using the following command to email a backup log file (backup using Amazon AWS ec2 cli sync):

Send-MailMessage -From "helpdesk@myco.com" -to "myemail@myco.com" -Subject "Backup Log for helpdesk on $date" -Body (Get-Content $log) -Smtpserver "mailserver.com" -port "25" -attachment $log

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The email is pretty basic. It displays in basic text format. I'd like the results of this backup to display in HTML with a header saying something like "Helpdesk backup results for $date" and then the results below that.

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Dan Craciun

8/22/2022 - Mon

Dan Craciun

9/29/2015

Have you tried inserting HTML formatting?

$header = "<html><head></head><body><h1>Helpdesk backup results for $date</h1><pre>"
$content = (Get-Content $log)
$footer = "</pre></body></html>"
$body = "$header $content $footer"
Send-MailMessage -From "helpdesk@myco.com" -to "myemail@myco.com" -Subject "Backup Log for helpdesk on $date" -Body $body -Smtpserver "mailserver.com" -port "25" -attachment $log

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HTH,
Dan

cwhitmore88

9/29/2015

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Dan,
When I used your code this is what was in the body of the message:

<html><head></head><body><h1>Helpdesk backup results for 2015-09-29</h1><pre> upload: .\Backup.bat to s3://mybucket/daily/batch/Backup.bat Completed 1 of 2 part(s) with 1 file(s) remaining upload: .\Email.ps1 to s3://mybucket/daily/batch/Email.ps1 </pre></body></html>

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cwhitmore88

9/29/2015

ASKER

Ah yea. that works!

One more formatting question. How can I change the font for the header and put background color behind the header and log entries? (maybe alternating colors between each log entry line to make it easier to read?)

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Dan Craciun

9/29/2015

You'll need to define a table and use css for that.
I don't know if the limited HTML interpreter used in email messages supports the :nth-child pseudoclass for alternating colors.

You're better off asking this as a new question with a css tag and provide the expected output from your log.