PowerShell: List all the senders from an Outlook folder

April 8, 2009 · 1 min read

A friend of mine was looking for a tool today to extract a list of names and email addresses from a folder in outlook. I know that Outlook has a comprehensive COM based object model which I figured that I should be able to access from Powershell. I quick search turned up articles from both James Manning and on automating Outlook from Powershell (which I think I have come across before). A bit of poking around using the get-member helped me locate the properties I needed and resulted in the following script.

It access the Personal\Fun folder in my inbox and exports a list of names and email addresses for anyone that has sent me a joke (or at least those which were worth keeping)

$olFolderInbox = 6 $ol = new-object -comobject "Outlook.Application" $mapi = $ol.getnamespace("mapi") $inbox = $mapi.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderInbox) $msgs = $inbox.Folders.Item("Personal").Folders.Item("Fun") $msgs.items | Select-Object SenderName, SenderEmailAddress -unique | export-Csv c:\emails.csv -noTypeInformation

Taking this a bit further, I wrapped this code into a script so that it could take in the path to an outlook folder and returned a collection of names and addresses.

So the following call will display the output to the console

.\get-OutlookFolderSenders.ps1 "Personal\Fun"

And to export them to a file you can just pipe through to the export-csv cmdlet

.\get-OutlookFolderSenders.ps1 "Personal\Fun" | export-csv "c:\email.csv" -noTypeInformation

Or if you want a html page you can do the following:

.\get-OutlookFolderSenders.ps1 "Personal\Fun" | convertTo-html | "c:\email.htm" 

I developed this little snippet of code using which I still favour as my main Powershell IDE even though it is not longer being actively developed. It just fits with the way I like to work.

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Darren Gosbell

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