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Papercut SMTP, the Simple Desktop Email Receiver

By Johan van Soest.

Published : 2016-04-25.

Last updated : 2020-07-07.

Are you developing or testing an application that sends e-mails, but you do not want to send them to a mail server? You do not want to hassle with referencing to a physical SMTP-server? If you just want to check whether the application can send e-mails and the e-mail has the correct format, then Papercut SMTP (free) by Jaben Cargman is the application for you.

You can download Papercut SMTP here

Sending an e-mail with Powershell

# This PowerShell script sends an e-mail to the local
# Papercut SMTP e-mail test program
# (C)Copyrights 2016 - 2025 vanSoest.it by J. van Soest.
$mailFrom    = "helpdesk@van_Soest.it"
$MailTo      = "alerts@van_Soest.it"
$mailSubject = "Testmail from PowerShell"
$mailBody    = '<html>'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + '<body>'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + ' <img src="http://www.vansoest.it/images/vansoest.gif"><br />'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + ' This is a testmail from PowerShell to test the workings of Papercut,'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + ' the free e-mail test program.<br />'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + ' Kind regards,<br /> Johan van Soest'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + '</body>'
$mailbody    = $mailBody + '</html>'
$PSEmailServer = "localhost"
Send-MailMessage -From $mailFrom -Subject $mailSubject -To $MailTo -Body $mailBody -BodyAsHtml

Warning: A Windows domain name can not contain an underscore "_" according to these standards. The underscore is used in these examples as a spam counter measure.

Script Requires PowerShell 3.0 or better

PowerShell 3.0 is integrated with Windows 8 and with Windows Server 2012. Microsoft has also made PowerShell 3.0 available for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, for Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1, and for Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

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