Search-Mailbox delete all messages "From" and with subject "something" sent on specific date or a combination of the three

In addition to my previous post, here's how to search for a mail message from a particular sender and with a specific subject.

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery subject:
"Help-desk","Sent:28/01/2015", from:'someone@domain.com' 
-TargetMailbox administrator -LogOnly -TargetFolder CustomSearch 

This will generate a lot of output, and searching through all those lines in the Powershell console can be a pain. So i make things easy for myself and send it to myself.

$Output = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | Search-Mailbox  
-SearchQuery subject:"Help-desk",from:'someone@domain.com'  
-TargetMailbox administrator -LogOnly -TargetFolder CustomSearch

And then;

Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer smtp.domain.com -To 
 edwin@domain.com -subject "List" -From edwin@domain.com 
 -Body ($output | out-string)

The email is much easier to search trhough.

When you checked that the search went according to plan, you can finally delete all the emails you searched for by adding: -DeleteContent and removing -LogOnly

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | Search-Mailbox 
 -SearchQuery subject:"Help-desk",from:'someone@domain.com'  
-TargetMailbox administrator -TargetFolder CustomSearch -DeleteContent

Tip:

You can also search for an entire domain by specifying: from:'@domain.com'.
Note that there is no * (wildcard) in front of the @ sign.

If you want to delete a message with the subject: Re:Help-desk you should use single quote's " ' " (marked in red). Using single quotes wille delete any subject that contains Help-desk, so Re:Help-desk would be deleted as well.

Example: 'Re:Help-desk'

If you want to delete only the subject: Help-desk you should use the double quote's " " "

Example: "Re:Help-desk"


Full description of the Search-Mailbox command let can be found here


Tony Redmond just posted a more in depth view on this subject, go check it out here.