Other Options to Send E-mail Using PowerShell - php

Question

I'm trying to send out E-mails using a PowerShell script, my company's Virus scan (McAfee) is blocking port 25. I know that I can go into McAfee's setting and uncheck the "prevent mass E-mail.. option", I also know that I can call Outlook within my script to send E-mail while user is logged in (which is too intrusive). My question is, is there any other way to send e-mails using PowerShell without using any of the options I mentioned above.
Thank you.
$From = "name#name.com"
$To = "name#name.com"
$Body = Test"
$Subject2 = "Hi"
$SMTPServer ="smtp.com"
Send-MailMessage -From $From -To $To -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -Subject $Subject1 -Body $Body'
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.To = "name#name.com"
$Mail.Subject = "Hi"
$Mail.Body = "Hello"[System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name
$Mail.Send() '

Answer 1

Use .NET classes
You could create a [MailMessage] object manually and send it with the [SmtpClient] class, but this may fall foul of the McAfee software in the same way that Send-MailMessage does.
$From = "name#name.com"
$To = "name#name.com"
$Body = "Test"
$Subject2 = "Hi"
$SMTPServer ="smtp.com"
$message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $From, $To
$message.Subject = $Subject2
$message.Body = $Body
$smtpclient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer)
$smtpclient.Send($message)
http://exchangeserverpro.com/powershell-send-html-email/
Use Exchange Web Services
In order to use EWS you will need the Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll file, which you may find somewhere such as the following:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\1.0
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.2
Download from Microsoft
An example function implementation of this from Mike Pfeiffer's blog is here (and linked below):
Function Send-EWSMailMessage {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Position=0, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true, Mandatory=$true)]
[Object]
$PrimarySmtpAddress,
[Parameter(Position=1, Mandatory=$true)]
[System.String]
$Subject,
[Parameter(Position=2, Mandatory=$true)]
[System.String]
$Body
)
BEGIN {
Add-Type -Path "C:\bin\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll"
$sid = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().User.Value
$user = [ADSI]"LDAP://<SID=$sid>"
}
PROCESS {
$service = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService
$service.AutodiscoverUrl($user.Properties.mail)
if($PrimarySmtpAddress -is [Microsoft.Exchange.Data.SmtpAddress]) {
$Recipient = $PrimarySmtpAddress.ToString()
} else {
$Recipient = $PrimarySmtpAddress
}
$mail = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.EmailMessage($service)
$mail.Subject = $Subject
$mail.Body = $Body
[Void]$mail.ToRecipients.Add($Recipient)
$mail.SendAndSaveCopy()
}
END {
}
}
Sending Email with PowerShell and the EWS Managed API
The following link may be useful, but isn't specifically aimed at PowerShell implementations:
Creating and sending email messages by using the EWS Managed API 2.0

Answer 2

Does the SMTP server you are using support encrypted connection ? If so try:
Send-MailMessage -To $to -From $from -SmtpServer $smtp -UseSsl -Port "587"
I would test it but I don't have McAfee.