Not able to send value to Send-MailMessage with PowerShell Pipeline

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I am using below PowerShell to pass subject parameter to Send-MailMessage but its not working. Even after passing subject value its still asks for an input for Subject

Get-Date | Select-Object @{Name='Subject';Expression={$_.DateTime}} | Send-MailMessage -From '[email protected]' -To '[email protected]' -SmtpServer 'mysmptserver.COM'

Am I missing something?

Mathias R. Jessen · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-25 17:40:27Z

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The Subject parameter of Send-MailMessage does not accept pipeline input:

PS ~> Get-Help Send-MailMessage -Parameter Subject

-Subject <string>

    Required?                    true
    Position?                    1
    Accept pipeline input?       false
    Parameter set name           (All)
    Aliases                      sub
    Dynamic?                     false

Pipe your data to ForEach-Object and call Send-MailMessage on each iteration instead:

Get-Date | Select-Object @{Name='Subject';Expression={$_.DateTime}} | ForEach-Object {
  Send-MailMessage -Subject $_ -From '[email protected]' -To '[email protected]' -SmtpServer 'mysmptserver.COM' 
}

edited Feb 25, 2022 at 17:40

answered Feb 25, 2022 at 17:31

Mathias R. Jessen

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Ravi Khambhati Over a year ago

Thanks @mathias for quick response. Still its not working and asking for value for subject. Also looked at online documentation and it says Accept pipeline input to True. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/…

Mathias R. Jessen Over a year ago

@RaviKhambhati My mistake, I forgot to add -Subject $_, answer has been updated now, try again :)

Ravi Khambhati Over a year ago

Thanks @Mathias for the update. Does this mean the documentation on Microsoft is incorrect?

Mathias R. Jessen Over a year ago

@RaviKhambhati You're looking at the documentation for PowerShell 7.2, check out the docs for Windows PowerShell 5.1 :)

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