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What freeware or open source Windows programs will send an email on a weekly schedule?

Looking for an open source program for Windows 10, that will send out an email using a local Exchange server, on a network, every week or month at a specific time, automatically?
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What type of email are you trying to send?

If its just a simple email you can use powersell

PS C:\> Send-MailMessage -From "reports@exchangeserverpro.net" -To "administrator@exchangeserverpro.net" -Subject "Test email" -Body "This is a test email"

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Create scheduled task
Install the iis SMTP from console 6.0 then write a file into c:\inetpub\mailroot\pickup
The file has to ave
To:
From:
Subject:

Message body

You would need to configure a smart host through which your server will relay.
Many ISPs block outgoing port 25 destined traffic on dynamic/non business ips

Your smarthost will either need to point to your provider's nail servers....
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perhaps this works..