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Create Outlook email draft using PowerShell

Answer 1

+5 A:

$olFolderDrafts = 16
$ol = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application 
$ns = $ol.GetNameSpace("MAPI")

# call the save method yo dave the email in the drafts folder
$mail = $ol.CreateItem(0)
$null = $Mail.Recipients.Add("[email protected]")  
$Mail.Subject = "PS1 Script TestMail"  
$Mail.Body = "  Test Mail  "
$Mail.save()

# get it back from drafts and update the body
$drafts = $ns.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderDrafts)
$draft = $drafts.Items | where {$_.subject -eq 'PS1 Script TestMail'}
$draft.body += "`n foo bar"
$draft.save()

# send the message
#$draft.Send()

Shay Levy 2009-09-21 19:33:41

Great! Thanks. That's mostly done it! Is it possible to make the script open the draft window automatically so the last manual bits can be filled in before sending?

Jason 2009-09-21 20:23:21

Dan Blanchard 2009-09-21 20:24:19

np :) call the display method: $draft.Display()

Shay Levy 2009-09-21 22:04:26

Answer 2

+1 A:

I think Shay Levy's answer is almost there: the only bit missing is the display of the item. To do this, all you need is to get the relevant inspector object and tell it to display itself, thus:

$inspector = $draft.GetInspector  
$inspector.Display()

See the MSDN help on GetInspector for fancier behaviour.

Dan Blanchard 2009-09-21 20:24:28

Great!!! The final part! Thanks for your help!

Jason 2009-09-21 20:33:05

Answer 3

+1 A:

Based on the other answers, I have trimmed down the code a bit and use

$ol = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application

$mail = $ol.CreateItem(0)
$mail.Subject = "<subject>"
$mail.Body = "<body>"
$mail.save()

$inspector = $mail.GetInspector
$inspector.Display()

This removes the unnecessary step of retrieving the mail from the drafts folder. Incidentally, it also removes an error that occurred in Shay Levy's code when two draft emails had the same subject.

Jason 2009-09-22 14:21:24

Answer 4

A:

Unfortunately, this does not work if Outlook is running.

Joe Bruns 2010-10-06 16:00:24

Answer 5

A:

I was running Powershell elevated as an administrator. If you run PS normally, this does work.

Joe Bruns 2010-10-06 19:45:35

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