PowerShell/VBScript - Extract Outlook Mails Based on Condition - powershell

Question

Is there a way to obtain list of all sent & received emails having suffix not equal to #gmail.com via PowerShell or VBScript and possibly store it in seperate text files.
Add-type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" | out-null
$olFolders = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.olDefaultFolders" -as [type]
$outlook = new-object -comobject outlook.application
$namespace = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
$folder = $namespace.getDefaultFolder($olFolders::olFolderSentMail)
$folder.items | Select-Object -Property Subject, SentOn, To
I was using the above PS to obtain sent mail, but not sure where to apply the condition.
Secondly, the subject is not appearing completely, it becomes ..... is there any way to obtain the full subject as well ?

Answer 1

I'm assuming you're running on a client computer not a server. If you've access to the exchange server there's powershell commandlets that are easy to use (New-MailboxExport).
$folder is a COM-Object
$folder.items property contains a collection of COM-Objects representing messages.
Since they're objects, you can use the object commands (Get-Help Object) to use their properties. You just need to dig a little more to apply your filter. Specifically one more level, to the properties of the items in $folder.items. Pipe $folder.items to Get-Member to get the full list of properties. $folder.items | gm. To, From, SentOn and Subject are all there.
$NonGmailMessages = $folder.items |
where-object { { $_.to -notcontains "gmail.com" } -and
{ $_.from -notcontains "gmail.com" } }
One way of handling collections like this is to do one massive filter like I just did. Or you can filter by stages.
$NonGmailMessages = $folder.items
$NonGmailMessages = $NonGmailMessages | where-object { { $_.to -notcontains "gmail.com" }
$NonGmailMessages = $NonGmailMessages | where-object { { $_.from -notcontains "gmail.com" }
Add further lines to further narrow your collection.
You can export this collection complete with all properties intact to a CSV:
$NonGmailMessages | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation c:\temp\nonGmailMessages.csv
Or you can narrow the number of properties exported
$NonGmailMessages | Select-Object -Property From, To, SentOn, Subject | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation c:\temp\nonGmailMessages.csv
-NoTypeInformation prevents the object type information from being listed at the start of the file. This will make it a more 'pure' CSV for use in PS or Excel or whatever. Plus the CSV IS a text based file format, as you wished.