How to copy / move emails from one mailbox to other using powershell

Question

I would like to copy emails from one mailbox to other using powershell

Answer 1

PowerShell on its own won't help you here. You have to leverage some EWS-based solution, such as this one: https://github.com/David-Barrett-MS/PowerShell-EWS-Scripts/wiki/Merge-MailboxFolders.ps1

Answer 2

Hi @Prem Kumar Doddi ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform!

Based on your description, to copy or move emails from one mailbox to another using PowerShell, you can use the Search-Mailbox cmdlet. Here are the steps to do this:

1. Open PowerShell and run the following command to connect to Exchange Online:

$UserCredential = Get-Credential
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName $UserCredential.UserName -Password $UserCredential.Password

2. Make sure the user has the necessary permissions. The user must be a member of the Discovery Management group and be assigned the Mailbox Import Export role.
3. Use the Search-Mailbox cmdlet to copy emails from the source mailbox to the target mailbox. Here are examples:

$SourceUserName = "source@example.com"
$TargetUserName = "target@example.com"
$TargetFolderName = "TargetFolder"
Search-Mailbox -Identity $SourceUserName -TargetMailbox $TargetUserName -TargetFolder $TargetFolderName -LogLevel Full

4. If you want to move the email (i.e. copy it from the source and then delete it), you can use the -DeleteContent switch:

Search-Mailbox -Identity $SourceUserName -TargetMailbox $TargetUserName -TargetFolder $TargetFolderName -LogLevel Full -DeleteContent

5. Check the target mailbox to make sure the email was copied or moved successfully.

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Best,

Jake Zhang