{"id":1462,"date":"2019-11-03T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T01:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2023-03-23T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:43:45","slug":"send-email-with-sendgrid-and-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/staging2\/send-email-with-sendgrid-and-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Email with SendGrid and PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"146\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SendGrid.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1467\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, I set up a free SendGrid account in Azure and send email with the Rest API and PowerShell.&nbsp; I walk through the reusable function that builds the header and body of the message.&nbsp; This function is helpful for anyone who needs to send email from a PowerShell script that doesn\u2019t have access to an SMTP relay or are behind a firewall that blocks outbound SMTP traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Send Email with SendGrid and PowerShell\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AsAQr9XK1Fc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The function from the video can be found on GitHub at:<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tsrob50\/SendGridFunction\/\">https:\/\/github.com\/tsrob50\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tsrob50\/SendGridFunction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SendGridFunction (opens in a new tab)\">SendGridFunction<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tsrob50\/SendGridFunction\/\">\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, I set up a free SendGrid account in Azure and send email with the Rest API and PowerShell.&nbsp; I walk through the reusable function that builds the header and body of the message.&nbsp; This function is helpful for anyone who needs to send email from a PowerShell script that doesn\u2019t have access &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/staging2\/send-email-with-sendgrid-and-powershell\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Send Email with SendGrid and PowerShell<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Send Email with SendGrid and PowerShell - ciraltos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to set up a free SendGrid account in Azure and send email with the Rest API and PowerShell. 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