how to send and receive email using Microsoft exchange in PowerShell

Question

Hi Team,

I want to send email from O365 Microsoft Exchange using PowerShell script. I have tried to look for some solution online but did not get any. I am trying to create a PowerShell script which can help me to send email from O365 exchange and also read emails from the Mailbox folder.

Answer 1

You can use Send-MailMessage to send SMTP messages, but use it with caution: DE0005.md

Receiving mail is another thing entirely. PowerShell has no built-in way to do that. You can use the Outlook COM application, but it's not that easy to deal with. You can use a POP3 client, but if you want to do it in PowerShell you'd have to be able to deal with MIME, and that's another problem. You can also use EWS (Exchange Web Services), but that has its own learning curve (although it's not as steep as Outlook's COM model).

Have a look at MailKit and MIMEKit instead.

Answer 2

@Rich Matheisen thanks for your response!

I can not use Outlook COM because i can not install outlook application there and would not like to use POP3 either. I want to know how can i use EWS in PowerShell to send and receive email.

Answer 3

Have a look here: start-using-web-services-in-exchange
If you prefer the PDF version: a483b55d6f0a4224c75f9a2d64de7783

A while back (when EWS was introduced) Glen Scales did a lot of work and development with EWS. It looks like he's still doing it.

gscales
gsexdev.blogspot.com

You'll find plenty of examples if you search for them.