Monitoring a mailbox for specific fields

Question

Is it possible with PowerShell to monitor a mailbox in Outlook 2010 and if an email comes in with specific content (i.e. subject, sender, body), take those fields as variables and do something with them? The maibox would have to be monitored in real-time
so they're picked up as and when the emails come in and not periodically. I was planning on creating a SQL query with the variables but that's something I'm only just getting into and this'll be a long term project for me, not a quick script.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi AJ Mellor,
If you want filter emails in outlook with powershell, please refer to the script below:
$olFolderInbox = 6
$outlook = new-object -com outlook.application
$ns = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
$inbox = $ns.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderInbox)
$targetfolder = $inbox.Folders | where-object { $_.name -eq "subfolder name"}
$email = $targetfolder.items |Where {($_.SenderName -eq "sender name") -and ($_.subject -eq "all subject")}
if($email){
#do SQL query
To monitor in real-time, you can schedule the script above in task scheduler:
Weekend
Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script
I hope this helps.