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Brass Contributor

Sep 13, 2021

Mailbox Rules, PowerShell and Scripting.

Hey Guys, I am trying to create a powershell script that will create a mailbox rule in each users mailbox, based on an input list. Here is what i have so far: New-InboxRule -Mailbox $S...

Brass Contributor

Sep 14, 2021

pvanberlo

ok so here is where i am on it. So far this almost works:

$Importlist = Import-CSV Test_Email_Rule.csv

foreach ($SingleImport in $importlist)
{
New-InboxRule -Mailbox $($SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress) -From user.name@domain.com -MyNameInToBox $True -SubjectContainsWords '["Receipt Copy"] Hello' -Name RAKEmailG4 -MoveToFolder "$($SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress):\Sent Items"
}

The above script appears to work, however when it comes to moving the item to the users sent items folder it fails.

If i remove MovetoFolder Option and select -Deletemessage $True then it works. However i dont want to delete the message.

I am attaching an screenshot as well.

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pvanberlo

MCT

Sep 15, 2021

Hmm. The error message seems to indicate a connection failure. Not sure what might be causing it, but the syntax should be correct reading the docs.

Robert Bollinger
Iron Contributor
Sep 15, 2021
pvanberlo

Thanks for the response. Actually it turns out the problem was related to not having full mailbox access rights to the mailboxes in which i am trying to create the rule. I was testing with my 3 test accounts and those worked as expected. However my other test accounts did not.

I did some additional checking and found an article covering the need for full mailbox rights, but only when setting a rule which touches the users mailbox folders.

Thanks for your help.