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MS Exchange Mailbox and VB.NET

I am wanting to be able to monitor a MS exchange mailbox and parse out keywords in the body. I have a mailbox setup for this already and I have also gotten code for retrieving via pop3 and parsing, but I do not want to query the server every 5 secs. I do not think this is an effective way. The exchange server will be on the local network. Any guidance in this issue would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance,
Russell

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Amit

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russell12

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I work with the IT department in a police department. I have written there current CAD for them, and the CAD sends text messages via SMPT. I want some way of monitoring the mailbox for any reply's to the mailbox and pick up on keywords to send more information. Example: Officer responds with Times 1234 I want to be able to pick up "Times 1234" and send all times related to call number 1234. I am not very fluent with PowerShell to be honest with you, but I know how research, I will research this option. I have also looked into running outlook and writing a macro to insert into a db the emails coming in and have SQLDependency report back a change on that table and have the service I am creating for this read the db. I just dont want to overload the network.

Fareed Ali Khan

You can use the EWS (i.e. Exchange web service) SubscribeToPullNotifications

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn458790%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

Attaching the sample code which is also available on MS site

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Amit

You can use search-mailbox command let. Write the logic according to your requirement and generate an alert. I guess it should not take more than 3-4 line code for your requirement. first Search that mailbox with that key word and send the alert.

russell12

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I decided to use the outlook route. Fareed, I failed to mention I am running Exchange 2003, I could not find any information on Exchange 2003 for push notifications, but I will definitely keep this in mind as we are looking to upgrade servers at the pd. When we do upgrade, we will also upgrade Exchange and I will be able to utilize this feature. But for the time being, I am using Outlook 2007 sitting on the server running constantly and created a service to check to make sure the process is still running and if it is not to start Outlook back. This is not the way I wanted to do it, but it is working well. Amit, I am not good enough with powershell to be able to utilize it. Although, your answer is also correct, it will work after researching your method. I really appreciate all the responses, and I gave points to all as all answers are good answers and will ultimately get the job done! Thank you again!!
Russell