Search and Delete Messages from User Mailboxes – Exchange 2010

Hi Readers,

Today I am sharing the method to remove messages from exchange mailboxes.

Note:- Indexing should be working fine otherwise there would be issues in removing messages from mailboxes.

Create a CSV file for user mailboxes on which you want to take action:

Just logging:

import-csv c:\tmp\Messagesubject.csv | foreach {Search-Mailbox $_.alias -SearchQuery subject:“Vikas Sukhija Schedule” -TargetMailbox “LogMailbox” -TargetFolder “Logs” -LogOnly -LogLevel Full} >c:\tmp\output.txt

Move & Delete Messages:

import-csv c:\tmp\exchange2010.csv | foreach {Search-Mailbox $_.alias -SearchQuery subject:”Vikas Sukhija Schedule” -TargetMailbox “LogMailbox” -TargetFolder “Logs” -DeleteContent -force} > c:\tmp\moveanddel.txt

Delete Messages:

import-csv c:\tmp\exchange2010.csv | foreach {Search-Mailbox $_.alias -SearchQuery subject:”Vikas Sukhija Schedule” -DeleteContent -force} > c:\temp\output.txt

Follow the next article to convert the output log to CSV so that its easy to read:

Convert Structured TEXT to CSV format

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how do you do to make the same with a csv file, with, messagesubject, and recipients?

thanks

You need to pickup subject from csv same as I picked the Alias using $_.messagesubject

Hi Vikas, Would this script work on Exchange 2013? Can it be applied to “From” and “To” fields as well? Messages from certain domains or sent to certain domains?

Vikas Sukhija says:

July 8, 2017 at 12:29 am

yes it will work , you can also add from: in the query..

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- Bill says:
  
  July 10, 2017 at 2:52 pm
  
  Thanks Vikas! Here is my situation:
  
  On a Exchange 2013 server, I would like to search Mr Smith’s entire mailbox for all emails to and from xyz.com, and move those messages to Moved folder in JOB mailbox.
  I created a CSV file called ex13, and have the Mr Smith’s email address (jsmith@mydomain.com) in there. In PowerShell running the below command on the server would be sufficient to do this job:
  
  import-csv c:\tmp\ex13.csv | foreach {Search-Mailbox $_.alias -SearchQuery to:”*.xyz.com” from:”*.xyz.com”-TargetMailbox “JOB” -TargetFolder “Moved”} > c:\tmp\result.txt
  
  It’s ok to have “to” and “from” in the query?
  
  I much appreciate your help!