Exchange 2010 - run command on mail receive

Question

Does anyone know is there a way to make Exchange server 2010 execute some program upon mail receive for some mailbox ?

For example:

I have mails [e-mail] and [e-mail]

I want to execute program1.exe when mail arrives to [e-mail] and execute program2.exe when mail arrives to [e-mail]

I have looked all options in Exchange management console, and didn't find anything similar.

Answer 1

Exchange has no out-of-box way to do this. You might want to look at using Exchange Web Services (EWS) subscriptions in an external service to do this.

Answer 2

One way I accomplished this is by writing a powershell script using outlook com objects to scan the inbox for certain criteria and execute a process based on what it finds.

Answer 3

I made something similar using EWS and powershell. You can download EWS here

Then you can create an script in powershell that use the Exchange web service

This is the example of my script:

$MailboxName = "[e-mail]"
$dllpath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.0\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll"
[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile($dllpath)
$service = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeVersion]::Exchange2010_SP1)
$service.TraceEnabled = $false

$service.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("name","password", "domain")
$service.Url="https://mail.yourdomain.com.au/ews/exchange.asmx"

try{
$fldArray = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderId[] 1
$Inboxid = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderId([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Inbox,$MailboxName)
$fldArray[0] = $Inboxid
$stmsubscription = $service.SubscribeToStreamingNotifications($fldArray, [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.EventType]::NewMail)
$stmConnection = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.StreamingSubscriptionConnection($service, 30);
$stmConnection.AddSubscription($stmsubscription)
Register-ObjectEvent -inputObject $stmConnection -eventName "OnNotificationEvent" -Action {

    foreach($notEvent in $event.SourceEventArgs.Events){    
        [String]$itmId = $notEvent.ItemId.UniqueId.ToString()
        $message = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.EmailMessage]::Bind($event.MessageData,$itmId)
        IF ($message.Subject -eq "execprocess"){
            Start-Process  "mybat.bat" 
        }            
    }    


} -MessageData $service

}catch [Exception] {
                Get-Date  | Out-File C:\logs\logError.txt -Append
                "Error : "+  $_.Exception.Message  
                }
Register-ObjectEvent -inputObject $stmConnection -eventName "OnDisconnect" -Action {$event.MessageData.Open()} -MessageData $stmConnection
$stmConnection.Open()

Then, run the 2 scripts one for every account you need to monitoring.

See the original example here--> Source