How to use Powershell to Monitor a specific inbox for Commands?

Question

I would like to set up functionality where a powershell script would access the email in a specific mailbox. It would then parse each email to engage in dialog with a specific set of users. To serve as a system that could be interacted with through email. How could this be pulled off?

Answer 1

I'd start with the EWS managed API and my sample. Glen's blog has a MUCH deeper explanation. exchange.webservices.data.itemview is the key class (search), and with overview and the countless examples from Glen's blog- you should be off to a good start.

Answer 2

If you want to run this from a client with Outlook installed then the following is a good starting point (EWS is not required).

$olFolderInbox = 6
$outlook = new-object -com outlook.application;
$mapi = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI");
$inbox = $mapi.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderInbox)
$inbox | gm