Vista - Baffled, need to send email with output of command.

Hi,

I'm trying to get some dir sizing and have that e-mailed. However, the
body of the message stays empty - it will not put the info in at all.
It will send regular text , and it does collect the info I want (I
checked by outputting the content of $body to the screen. I've checked
several example scripts, but I cannot see what I am doing wrong. I
hope you can help.

param(
$MailServer = 'mailserver.domain.local',
$MailTo = 'mailbox@xxxxxx',
$Mailfrom= 'script@xxxxxx',
$Subject = 'Diskspace for ' + (Get-Date)
)

$body = get-childitem \\server\share\ | where-object
{$_.PSisContainer} |
select-object Name, @{ Name="Size (GB)";
Expression={[math]::round((($_ |
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Measure-Object -Sum Length).Sum + 0)/1GB,
2) }}


$email = new-object system.net.mail.mailmessage

$email.to.add($Mailto)
$email.from = $Mailfrom
$email.subject = $Subject
$email.isbodyhtml = $False
$email.body = $body

$client = new-object system.net.mail.smtpclient $mailserver
$client.send($email)


My guess is, I'm overlooking something very basic, but I've been
staring at it too long I suppose...

Thanks in advance,

LF

Hi LordFox,

Try to pipe $body to Out-String



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L> Hi,
L>
L> I'm trying to get some dir sizing and have that e-mailed. However,
L> the body of the message stays empty - it will not put the info in at
L> all. It will send regular text , and it does collect the info I want
L> (I checked by outputting the content of $body to the screen. I've
L> checked several example scripts, but I cannot see what I am doing
L> wrong. I hope you can help.
L>
L> param(
L> $MailServer = 'mailserver.domain.local',
L> $MailTo = 'mailbox@xxxxxx',
L> $Mailfrom= 'script@xxxxxx',
L> $Subject = 'Diskspace for ' + (Get-Date)
L> )
L> $body = get-childitem \\server\share\ | where-object
L> {$_.PSisContainer} |
L> select-object Name, @{ Name="Size (GB)";
L> Expression={[math]::round((($_ |
L> Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Measure-Object -Sum Length).Sum + 0)/1GB, 2)
L> }}
L>
L> $email = new-object system.net.mail.mailmessage
L>
L> $email.to.add($Mailto)
L> $email.from = $Mailfrom
L> $email.subject = $Subject
L> $email.isbodyhtml = $False
L> $email.body = $body
L> $client = new-object system.net.mail.smtpclient $mailserver
L> $client.send($email)
L>
L> My guess is, I'm overlooking something very basic, but I've been
L> staring at it too long I suppose...
L>
L> Thanks in advance,
L>
L> LF
L>

Thanks a million!

Pretty obvious solution :-) But as I said, have been staring at it too
long I suppose.

Have a great day,

LF



On Jun 12, 11:34*am, LordFox <rick.harderw...@xxxxxx> wrote:

LordFox wrote:Not always so obvious, so a good question/issue.

I've cut-off stuff to the right below.

PS > $email = new-object system.net.mail.mailmessage
PS > $email|get-member body

TypeName: System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Body Property System.String Body {get;set;}

Comments: This property is defined as a string object. So you need to
pass it a string specifically.

PS > $body = get-childitem c:\testing | where-object {$_.PSisContainer} | `PS > $body.gettype().fullname
System.Object[]

Comments: We don't have a string object, but an array of "generic objects".

PS > ($body|out-string).gettype().fullname
System.String
PS >

Comments: We've converted our array of objects to a string object. (I'd
hoped $body.tostring() might have worked also, but it doesn't.)

So, it is just a matter of trying to squeeze the wrong kind of object
into the body property. We just need to change the object type, and
then it worked.

Marco


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