get email attribute from object value - Powershell

Yes. Email addresses are stored in the proxyaddresses attribute in Active Directory. There is also an email attribute that can contain the user's primary email address, but this is an informational attribute only and is what controls the EMail field in the user properties screen.

do u have a script

get-aduser JustAnExample -Property ProxyAddresses | Select -Expand ProxyAddresses

This gives error..

$user = "canonicalname path"
Get-ADUser -Filter { CN -eq $user } -Properties *| Select displayname,emailaddress

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Then it's wrong.

You do not need to use a filter when wanting an exact CN match.
And you should not use -Property * - be restrictive, otherwise the cmdlet has to retrieve a lot of data unnecessarily.

Get-AdUser 'canonicalname path' -Property EMailAddress | Select DisplayName, EmailAddress

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how about querying for multiple canonical paths? how to query foreach in that case

This also give error

Get-AdUser 'canonicalname path' -Property EMailAddress | Select DisplayName, EmailAddress

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Get-AdUser : Cannot find an object with identity: 

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I have a canonical name i want to get mail id associated with it..
its like "domainname/someOU/someOU/username"
so im trying to query

domainname/someOU/someOU/username

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to get mail id
we can easily query a displayname to get this but can we use canonical name

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