Question

Part 2 of an earlier question here – I know have a variable which contains a password in plaintext, and a username in plaintext which happens to be a email address. I need to use these in order to send an email via SMTP in powershell, Send-MailMessage for example.

So I need to pass it:

[e-mail] and $password

In order to authenticate against a smart host the send the email. Any way of doing this, something clever with Get-Credential or some switch on Send-MailMessage, or is there another totally different option?

Cheers

Answer 1

You can use ConvertTo-SecureString to convert your plain text password.

Assuming your username is in $username variable and plain text password in $password, you can do something like this:

$securepass = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -String $password -Force
$creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username,$securepass

Send-MailMessage ... -Credentials $creds