Download emails from outlook using powershell? - powershell

Question

How do I reference a specific email address in this code it always directs to
the default email account. I have multiple email accounts in my outlook and I want to download emails from a different account which I want to reference by that email address . I have a feeling
$folder = $namespace.getDefaultFolder($olFolders::olFolderInBox)
has to be changed please give suggestions.
`[CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName="All")] `
`Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
Position=0,
HelpMessage='Folder path to store emails. Do not use quotation marks even if the path has spaces.',
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true
)]
[Alias("Destination", "Dest", "FullName")]
[String]$DestinationPath, `
[Parameter(ParameterSetName="All")]
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ParameterSetName="Unread")]
[Switch]$UnreadOnly,
[Parameter(ParameterSetName="Unread")]
[Switch]$MarkRead
)
#Removes invalid Characters for file names from a string input and outputs
the clean string
` #Similar to VBA CleanString() Method
#Currently set to replace all illegal characters with a hyphen (-)
Function Remove-InvalidFileNameChars {`
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
[String]$Name
)
return [RegEx]::Replace($Name, "[{0}]" -f ([RegEx]::Escape([String][System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars())), '-')
}
#Test for destination folder nonexistence
if (!(Test-Path $DestinationPath)) {
#Set values for prompt and menu
$yes = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Yes", `
"Confirmation Choice"
$no = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&No", `
"Negative Response"
$options = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]]($yes, $no)
$title = "Invalid Destination"
$message = "The folder you entered does not exist. Would you like to create the folder?"
#Prompt for folder creation and store answer
$result = $host.UI.PromptForChoice($title, $message, $options, 0)
#If yes, create.
if ($result -eq 0) {
New-Item $DestinationPath -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
Write-Host "Directory created."
}
#If no, exit
else {exit}
}
#Add a trailing "\" to the destination path if it doesn't already
if ($DestinationPath[-1] -ne "\") {
$DestinationPath += "\"
}
#Add Interop Assembly
Add-type -AssemblyName "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" | Out-Null
#Type declaration for Outlook Enumerations, Thank you Hey, Scripting Guy! blog for this demonstration
$olFolders = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.olDefaultFolders" -as [type]
$olSaveType = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlSaveAsType" -as [type]
$olClass = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlObjectClass" -as [type]
#Add Outlook Com Object, MAPI namespace, and set folder to the Inbox
$outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$namespace = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
#Future Functionality to Receive Email before saving - Still Needs Testing
#$outlook.Session | Out-Null
#$outlook.Session.SendAndReceive($false) | Out-Null
$folder = $namespace.getDefaultFolder($olFolders::olFolderInBox)
#Iterate through each object in the chosen folder
foreach ($email in $folder.Items) {
#Get email's subject and date
[string]$subject = $email.Subject
[string]$sentOn = $email.SentOn
#Strip subject and date of illegal characters, add .msg extension, and combine
$fileName = Remove-InvalidFileNameChars -Name ($sentOn + "-" + $subject + ".msg")
#Combine destination path with stripped file name
$dest = $DestinationPath + $fileName
#Test if object is a MailItem
if ($email.Class -eq $olClass::olMail) {
#Test if UnreadOnly switch was used
if ($UnreadOnly) {
#Test if email is unread and save if true
if ($email.Unread) {
#Test if MarkRead switch was used and mark read
if ($MarkRead) {
$email.Unread = $false
}
$email.SaveAs($dest, $olSaveType::olMSG)
}
}
#UnreadOnly switch not used, save all
else {
$email.SaveAs($dest, $olSaveType::olMSG)
}
}
}

Answer 1

Think You can do something like this:
$outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$namespace =$outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
$namespace.Logon("Profilename","profilepassword",$false,$false)
Also you can use Assembly - Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll and do something like this:
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.0\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll") > $nul
$getref = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeVersion]::Exchange2010_SP2)
$getref.Credentials = New-Object Net.NetworkCredential('Account', 'Password', 'domain.local')
$getref.AutodiscoverUrl("Account#domain.com")
$inbox = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($getref,[Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Inbox)
#Write-Host "Total Messages:" $inbox.TotalCount
$psPropset = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.PropertySet([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BasePropertySet]::FirstClassProperties)
$ivItemView = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemView($inbox.TotalCount)
$fiItems = $getref.FindItems($Inbox.Id,$ivItemView)
[Void]$getref.LoadPropertiesForItems($fiItems,$psPropset)
foreach($Item in $fiItems.Items){
if ($Item.From -EQ "Somemail#domain.com") {
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property #{
Emails = $Item.From
} | select Emails
}
}

Answer 2

Hello! You can load a body text (to html) something like this:
foreach($Item in $fiItems.Items){
if ($Item.Subject -match "Something special") {
$Item.Load()
$Save = ((Get-Date -Format "yyMMdd") + "-" + $Item.Subject[0] + ".html")
New-Item -Path "C:\file\exch\" -name $Save -ItemType file -value $Item.Body.Text
}
}