It\u2019s quite easy to test SMTP email from your SharePoint site, in fact from any server using the Telnet client and any of the thousands of SMTP test guides across the net.<\/p>\n
What isn\u2019t so easy is to test outbound email from SharePoint itself and have complete control over what\u2019s being sent. You can of course configure an alert, and hope that this will send an e-mail, but you don\u2019t have complete control of the process as you are reliant on timer jobs and other variables to process that alert.<\/p>\n
This is an update of an earlier blog post that I wrote about using the SPUtility class and the SendEmail method, however instead of doing this in code, we\u2019re going to use PowerShell. (This is the original blog post.)<\/a><\/p>\n First up, open a PowerShell session on the server containing Central Admin. In order to send an email, we need to set-up 3 objects, The headers for the e-mail, the body text and the Web that we want to associate it with.<\/p>\n Firstly we use a String dictionary to create the header collection, and then add the various header nodes to it.<\/p>\n$sd = new<\/span>-object<\/span> System.collections.specialized.stringdictionary\r\n$sd.add("to"<\/span>,"ourrecipient@email.address"<\/span>)\r\n$sd.add("from"<\/span>,"outsender@email.address"<\/span>)\r\n$sd.add("Subject"<\/span>,"The clue is in the name!"<\/span>)\r\n<\/pre>\n