Output in Email Body Formatting Warped

Question

Hi All
I am completly new to powershell & am googling about for code.
I have been able to so far to send the results of a powershell query by email and am mightly impressed it worked.
When the query is done on the command line it works great, by email the output is spread wide and the fields dont align with each other.
I have pasted my commands below. I am querying the Exchange Mailbox sizes and wish to sort by the biggest down.  This works great and I out put it to a text file.
I then read the text file and substitute it for the body of the email.
On the outlook email recepient end It looks to me like the window size of outlook causes the text to wrap around and it is no longer displayed lengthways.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks
Below gets data
Get-WMIObject -Class Exchange_Mailbox -Namespace ROOT\MicrosoftExchangev2 -ComputerName
MyExchangeServer | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -le (Get-Date).AddYears(1)} | Select-Object MailboxDisplayName,Size
| sort-object size -descending
Below tells which exchnage server to use
$psEmailServer = "MyExchangeServer"
Below is the text file containing the data I need assigned to $body
$body= (Get-Content mailboxsize.txt)
Below sends the email using the contents of the email as the email body, BUT it dosent come out right and its out of alignment in outlook.
send-mailmessage -from "[email protected]" -to "[email protected]" -subject "test powershell email" -body "$body"
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Answer 1

The PowerShell console uses a fixed-width font, by default, but most email clients don't.  The best solution is to use the ConvertTo-Html command on the results of your pipeline, instead of saving the text to a file.  This renders the objects in
an HTML table instead of relying on a fixed-width font, and then you use the -BodyAsHtml switch when calling Send-MailMessage:
$data = Get-WMIObject -Class Exchange_Mailbox -Namespace ROOT\MicrosoftExchangev2 -ComputerName MyExchangeServer |
Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -le (Get-Date).AddYears(1)} |
Select-Object MailboxDisplayName,Size |
sort-object size -descending
$psEmailServer = "MyExchangeServer"
$body = $data | ConvertTo-Html | Out-String
Send-MailMessage -From "[email protected]" -To "[email protected]" -Subject "test powershell email" -Body $body -BodyAsHtml
Edit:  If you absolutely must send the contents of the file as-is, you can still try sending the body as HTML, wrapping the body text in a <pre> tag, which should be displayed in a fixed-width font:
$body = Get-Content mailboxsize.txt -Raw
$body = '<pre>{0}</pre>' -f [System.Net.WebUtility]::HtmlEncode($body)
$psEmailServer = "MyExchangeServer"
Send-MailMessage -From "[email protected]" -To "[email protected]" -Subject "test powershell email" -Body $body -BodyAsHtml