Move mails in outlook to subfolder

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Hello im still looking for a simple solution of moving emails from one subfolder to another in outlook. I tried multiple ways but at the end nothing works. here is one example:

add-type -assemblyName "microsoft.office.interop.outlook"
add-type -assemblyname "System.runtime.interopservices"
$outlook = New-object -comobject outlook.application
$namespace = $outlook.getnamespace("MAPI")

$emails = $outlook.session.folders.item(1).folders.item("Folder1")

$targetfolder = $outlook.session.folders.item(1).folders.item"Folder2")
foreach($email in $emailtomove)
{
email.move($archivefolder)
}

The error message is:

mistake in opening methode, because [system._comobject] has no methode with “move”. vaguely translated from german.

so something is wrong with the last line.

can somebody pls help me out thank you in advance !

2

Hmmm … I don’t have any experiences with controlling Outlook by PowerShell. So I cannot recommend something meaningful for your actual issue. But shouldn’t be way easier to use Outlook rules to manage incomming mails and move them to different folders?

3

thank you olaf. the problem is im writing a little application and want a button do sort away the mails. i cant trigger rules with powershell unfortunately so i have to find a different way.

4

Why do you say this?

5

because i just cant find out how and the search for a solution drove me into insanity

6

The office COM objects are incredibly well documented, and as I mentioned in my previous post you can work out an awful lot with Get-Member.

You can trigger a rule like this:

$outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$mapi = $outlook.GetNamespace('MAPI')
$folder = $mapi.Folders.Item('systemmails')
$inbox = $folder.FolderPath('Inbox')
$rules = $inbox.Store.GetRules()
$rules.Item('My Rule').Execute()
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thank you ! im sorry im very new, i dont even know what com objects are so please excuse me if my questions are annoying.

but this is exactly what i was looking for ! Thanks a lot !