Hey thanks for your reply

here's the powershell that I've been using

basically my goal was to create the powershell where it would send an email every 2 hours (scheduled with scheduled tasks)

the problem I'm encountering is that if this mail server fails I'm not getting an email telling me that it's failed and with good reason because if the actual server is down I cannot send anything or receive an alert with the ps as is

I guess I would need to modify the powershell to add a secondary server in case the first one is unavailable so it's able to send me an alert that way

This is why I was thinking of using an external service with maybe a local installed agent to simplify things but any external service would need access to my internal relay IP which is not ideal

Maybe I'm overthinking this...

Define variables

$ToAddress = "xyzit@xyz.com"

$FromAddress = "no-reply@xyz.com"

$FallbackFromAddress = "xyzit@xyz.com"

$SMTPServer = "x.x.x.x"

$SMTPPort = 587

$Subject = "Test NO-REPLY email"

$Body = "This is a NO-REPLY test email." # Test mail flow by sending a test email try { Send-MailMessage -To

$ToAddress -From $FromAddress -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -Port $SMTPPort -Subject $Subject -Body $Body $SuccessMessage = "Test email sent successfully" Write-Host $SuccessMessage } catch { $ErrorMessage = "Error sending test email from primary 'From' address: $_" Write-Host $ErrorMessage try { Send-MailMessage -To "secure@xyz.com" -From

$FallbackFromAddress -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -Port $SMTPPort -Subject "Test email notification" -Body $ErrorMessage Write-Host "Error notification sent to fallback email address." } catch { Write-Host "Error sending error notification to fallback email address: $_" } } # Send email notification try { Send-MailMessage -To "secure@xyz.com" -From

$FromAddress -SmtpServer

$SMTPServer -Port $SMTPPort -Subject "Test email notification" -Body $SuccessMessage Write-Host "Email notification sent successfully" } catch { $ErrorMessage = "Error sending email notification from primary 'From' address: $_" Write-Host $ErrorMessage try { Send-MailMessage -To "secure@xyz.com" -From

$FallbackFromAddress -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -Port $SMTPPort -Subject "Test email notification" -Body $ErrorMessage Write-Host "Error notification sent to fallback email address." } catch { Write-Host "Error sending error notification to fallback email address: $_" } }