How to send an email from yahoo SMTP server with PowerShell?

Question

How to send an email from yahoo SMTP server with PowerShell v3? Authentication is required.

Answer 1

Send-MailMessage has a -Credential parameter that takes a pscredential object. I would use a hashtable to store and splat the connection arguments:

$MailArgs = @{
    From       = 'mindaugas@yahoo.com'
    To         = 'someone@domain.com'
    Subject    = 'A subject line'
    Body       = 'Mail message content goes here!'
    SmtpServer = 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com'
    Port       = 587
    UseSsl     = $true
    Credential = New-Object pscredential 'mindaugas@yahoo.com',$('P@ssW0rd!' |ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force)
}
Send-MailMessage @MailArgs