Powershell to get the number of mails in the Inbox and number of unread emails in Inbox

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Powershell using Outlook.Application to pull out the mailbox details

$outlook = new-object -com Outlook.Application
$session = $outlook.Session
$session.Logon()
$inbox = $outlook.session.GetDefaultFolder(6)
$unreadCount = (%{$inbox.Items | where {$_.UnRead}}).Count
Write-Host $unreadCount
$ItemCount = (%{$inbox.Items }).Count
Write-Host $ItemCount

 

3 thoughts on “Powershell to get the number of mails in the Inbox and number of unread emails in Inbox”

  1. Thanks for this shell command, I was wondering if you can help me alter this command so it checks every 30 minutes on an inbox for a user to see if there is an unread email older then 30 minutes and if so send an email alert? thanks in advance!

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  2. Thanks for this shell command, I was wondering if you can help me alter this command so it checks every 30 minutes on an inbox for a user to see if there is an unread email older then 30 minutes and if so send an email alert? thanks in advance!
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  3. This modification works for situations where 1 is returned as the result:
    $outlook = new-object -com Outlook.Application
    $session = $outlook.Session
    $session.Logon()
    $inbox = $outlook.session.GetDefaultFolder(6)
    [array]$unreadCount = @(%{$inbox.Items | where {$_.UnRead}}).Count
    Write-Host $unreadCount
    [array]$ItemCount = @(%{$inbox.Items }).Count
    Write-Host $ItemCount

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