Category Archives: Windows 7

As promised here is the function to delete mail items in a specific folder function remove-mailitem { [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$mailfolder, [datetime]$start, [datetime]$finish ) if ($start -and $finish){ if ($start -ge $finish){Throw “Finish $($finish) before Start $($start)”} } $outlook … Continue reading →

Continuing our perambulation around Outlook when used with multiple hotmail accounts its time to look at the other folders and the mail items they contain. This post will show how to view the mail items and a future post will … Continue reading →

Getting back to looking at working with Outlook we can adapt the function used to deleted the contents of the Deleted Items folder to work with the Junk mail folders function clear-junkmail { $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application get-mailitemcount -junk … Continue reading →

I started this series http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/30/outlook-connector-amp-mail-folder-item-count.aspx by looking at how we could enumerate the mail folders in Outlook 2010 when I had had four hotmail accounts open.  The function has been modified since then function get-mailitemcount { param ( [parameter(ParameterSetName="All")] [switch]$all, … Continue reading →

The original version of this function only did one pass at deleting and had to iterate through all of the folders to find the Deleted Items folder.  This time we use the collection of folders we created using the get-mailfolders … Continue reading →

The functions we’ve seen so far have involved iterating through the whole set of Outlook folders. That’s a lot of folders (I have 4 email accounts with lost of folders). The trick is to do this just once and then … Continue reading →

Continuing our look at scripting against Outlook & the hotmail connector Many of the emails I get end up being read once and deleted. This leaves a ton of stuff in the deleted items folders. Periodically I’ll clean these up. … Continue reading →