How do I Save Outlook Attachments using Powershell?

Question

I have seen a few examples of this for vbScript, but none for powershell.
Here is a script I found to open Outlook and pick a folder:
function Release-Ref ($ref) {
([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject(
[System.__ComObject]$ref) -gt 0)
[System.GC]::Collect()
[System.GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
$o = New-Object -comobject outlook.application
$n = $o.GetNamespace("MAPI")
$f = $n.PickFolder()
Write-Host $f.name
$a = Release-Ref($f)
$a = Release-Ref($n)
$a = Release-Ref($o)
Now I want to save the Excel attachments in the folder I pick.
Better yet, I want to Open the attachements in Excel and copy the contents to a master spreadsheet.
Again, I found a vbScript in "Hey Scripting Guy" BUT, The format is so mangled, I can not read the script.
Anyone else have that problem? The scripts come out as one long line of text.

Answer 1

because you didn�??t filter out emails without attachments so the first email it comes to in that box doesn�??t have one, and the value is null, and fails.
in that script, where $a = $f.items, that�??s just assigning all emails because $f is the folder and .items is all items in that folder.
so that item may not have an attachment, hence the null error
I think you can do
foreach ($item
in
$f.items)
$sender
=
$item.SenderName
foreach($attach
in
$item.Attachments)
if($attach.filename.contains("xlsx"))
write-host
"$sender sent $($attach.filename)"
I did this on my inbox and for the most part it worked. I would some times get the error you got and I cant figure out why. In testing I found that it identified that it had attachments when it didn�??t.