Hello, I am looking to send myself a log file at the end of every month that shows my VPN connections for that month

Here it grabs the file and then sends it as an attachment. The file is 27MB The only problem is it always says:

Send-MailMessage : The operation has timed out.
At C:\VPNSCRIPT.ps1:3 char:1
+ Send-MailMessage -SMTPserver XXXXXXXXXX -From n ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient:SmtpClient) [Send-MailMessage], SmtpException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SendMailMessage

$date = get-date -Format "IN15MM"
Send-MailMessage -SMTPserver XXXXXXXXX -From XXX@XXXXX.com -Subject "VPN LOG" -To XXX@XXXXX.com -Attachments C:\$date.log

The log file is likely too big.  Most mail servers limit at 10Mb.

Thats what I was afraid of. Would it be possible to create a script that grabs a file then zips it then sends it?

Thats what I was afraid of. Would it be possible to create a script that grabs a file then zips it then sends it?

Most everything is possible. There are threads around here that go through how to use .Net 4.5's ZipFile class for creating zip files.

Thats what I was afraid of. Would it be possible to create a script that grabs a file then zips it then sends it?

You can use free tools in your script to make a zip file. For example 7zip



        ...
	$arc="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"
        $arc_params="a -t7z -m0=LZMA2 -mmt -mx9"
        $arc_source="$VolumeTarget\$newname"
        $arc_dest="$Path2Arc\$newname.7z"
        Write-Verbose "Zip folder $newname to  $newname.7z"
        Start-Process $arc -ArgumentList "$arc_params $arc_dest $arc_source" -Wait
	...