PowerShell to send email with content of a file

http://exchangeserverpro.com/powershell-email-message-body/

Something like the above but would like to assign emailbody the content
of a text or html file

You can read the text file in with the body content first, into a variable, then just use the variable as the -body when you send the email.

$body = get-content yourfile.txt | out-string

~bp

Can I send both a html (as in Outlook, we can have html body for the email to get formatting)
as well as text file?

I was looking at another syntax:
$messageBody = [IO.File]::ReadAllText("full_path\test.txt")

Send-Email.ps1
=============
#.\Send-Email.ps1 -To "administrator@exchangeserverpro.net" -Subject "Test email" -Body "This is a test"
#
#
param(
[string]$to,
[string]$subject,
[string]$body
)

$smtpServer = "ho-ex2010-caht1.exchangeserverpro.net"
$smtpFrom = "reports@exchangeserverpro.net"
$smtpTo = $to
$messageSubject = $subject
$messageBody = [IO.File]::ReadAllText("full_path\test.txt")

$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($smtpFrom,$smtpTo,$messagesubject,$messagebody)

I meant:
Can I send either in html or plain text format using the given PowerShell commands?

Not sure the exact question.

You do not want to send an attachment, right, we are still talking about putting content of a file into the body?

Is the file you are getting the content from a plain text file, or is that data already HTML data?

Are you wanting to sometimes send the text body email as a "plain text" email, and other times send it as "HTML" email?

~bp

$smtp.Send($smtpFrom,$smtpTo,$messagesubject,$messagebody)
Doesn't the line above  put content of a file into the body?  
Right, I'm not sending a file as attachment.

> sometimes send the text body email as a "plain text" email, and other times send it as "HTML" email?
Yes, the above is what I wanted