PowerShell - Office 365 mailbox - get emails from specific folder - powershell

Question

I need to get all emails from office 365 account, not from Inbox but from specific folder "Processed"
$mail="automate#company.com"
$password="pass"
# Set the path to your copy of EWS Managed API
$dllpath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.0\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll"
# Load the Assemply
[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile($dllpath)
# Create a new Exchange service object
$service = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService
#These are your O365 credentials
$Service.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WebCredentials($mail,$password)
# this TestUrlCallback is purely a security check
$TestUrlCallback = {
param ([string] $url)
if ($url -eq "https://autodiscover-s.outlook.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml") {$true} else {$false}
}
# Autodiscover using the mail address set above
$service.AutodiscoverUrl($mail,$TestUrlCallback)
# create Property Set to include body and header of email
$PropertySet = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.PropertySet([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BasePropertySet]::FirstClassProperties)
# set email body to text
$PropertySet.RequestedBodyType = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BodyType]::Text;
# Set how many emails we want to read at a time
$numOfEmailsToRead = 100
# Index to keep track of where we are up to. Set to 0 initially.
$index = 0
# Do/while loop for paging through the folder
do
{
# Set what we want to retrieve from the folder. This will grab the first $pagesize emails
$view = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemView($numOfEmailsToRead,$index)
# Retrieve the data from the folder
# $findResults = $service.FindItems([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Processed,$view)
$findResults = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.SearchFilter+IsEqualTo([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderSchema]::DisplayName,"Processed")
}
But $findResults variable is empty, although there are emails in that folder, is there any way to get emails from specific folder in Office 365 ?

Answer 1

Found solution, this post helped me a lot
$mail="mail#company.com"
$password="pass"
$USER_DEFINED_FOLDER_IN_MAILBOX = "Processed"
# Set the path to your copy of EWS Managed API
$dllpath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.0\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll"
# Load the Assemply
[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile($dllpath)
# Create a new Exchange service object
$service = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService
#These are your O365 credentials
$Service.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WebCredentials($mail,$password)
# this TestUrlCallback is purely a security check
$TestUrlCallback = {
param ([string] $url)
if ($url -eq "https://autodiscover-s.outlook.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml") {$true} else {$false}
}
# Autodiscover using the mail address set above
$service.AutodiscoverUrl($mail,$TestUrlCallback)
# get a handle to the inbox
$inbox = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($service,[Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Inbox)
$MailboxRootid = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderId([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Root, $email) # selection and creation of new root
$MailboxRoot = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($service,$MailboxRootid)
$fvFolderView = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderView(100) #page size for displayed folders
$fvFolderView.Traversal = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderTraversal]::Deep; #Search traversal selection Deep = recursively
$SfSearchFilter = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.SearchFilter+IsEqualTo([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderSchema]::Displayname,$USER_DEFINED_FOLDER_IN_MAILBOX) #for each folder in mailbox define search
$findFolderResults = $MailboxRoot.FindFolders($SfSearchFilter,$fvFolderView)
$ArchiveFolder = ""
# create Property Set to include body and header of email
$PropertySet = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.PropertySet([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BasePropertySet]::FirstClassProperties)
# set email body to text
$PropertySet.RequestedBodyType = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BodyType]::Text;
# This next loop successfully finds my folder, but it is an inefficient way
# to do it. It's ok, because there's not that many folders, but there's tens
# of thousands of emails to search through in the folder itself, and that will
# need a more efficient search.
foreach ($Fdr in $findFolderResults.Folders)
{
$theDisplayName = $Fdr.DisplayName
if($theDisplayName -eq $USER_DEFINED_FOLDER_IN_MAILBOX)
{
$ArchiveFolder = $Fdr
}
}
# Now to actually try and search through the emails in my $ArchiveFolder (the hard way)
$textToFindInSubject = "Remove"
$emailsInFolder = $ArchiveFolder.FindItems(9999) # <-- Successfully finds ALL emails with no filtering, requiring iterative code to find the ones I want.
foreach($individualEmail in $emailsInFolder.Items)
{
if($individualEmail.Subject -match "$textToFindInSubject")
{
# found the email i want - but a super inefficient
# way to do it
echo "Successfully found the email!"
}
}
$searchfilter = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.SearchFilter+ContainsSubstring([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.EmailMessageSchema]::Subject,$textToFindInSubject)
$itemView = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemView(999)
$searchResults = $service.FindItems($ArchiveFolder.ID, $searchfilter, $itemView)
foreach($result in $searchResults)
{
$result.Load($PropertySet)
$subj = $result.Subject
echo "Subject"$subj
echo "Body: $($result.Body.Text)"
}