Send a test email from SharePoint

Hi Friends,

You might be working with email related activities in SharePoint like workflows or alerts in lists and libraries but before that you need to be sure that SharePoint is sending email. You can check it in numerous ways but be sure that Outgoing Email settings is configured properly in Central Administration Site.

Once you are pretty sure that Outgoing Email settings is properly configured it, you can test it on many ways : like adding users to a new SharePoint group. You can also check it via a power shell script as shown below.

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$email = "merin@sprealm.com"
$subject = "Life is good"
$body = "Life is good. Be happy."

$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite "http://sprealm:5050"
$web = $site.OpenWeb()
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility]::SendEmail($web,0,0,$email,$subject,$body)
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Copy the above script in a note pad and save it in a drive with some names like SendEmail.ps1
Then run the script.
Email sent successfully returns true whereas failure returns false.

// A True or False will confirm the message has been sent or not

Reference:http://jeffreypaarhuis.com/2013/02/12/send-test-email-from-sharepoint/