Automate Mailgun Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData API Driver for ADO.NET is a standard ADO.NET Provider that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Mailgun.

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Mailgun; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to retrieve Mailgun data.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Mailgun data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Mailgun Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Mailgun.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Mailgun (see below).

Mailgun API Profile Settings

Generate an API key in your Mailgun account by selecting Account Settings > API Security > Create Key from the account dropdown menu.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for ADO.NET\lib\System.Data.CData.API.dll")
       

2. Connect to Mailgun:

    
   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Mailgun.apip;ProfileSettings='Password=your_api_key';")
   $conn.Open()
   

3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT Type, Value from Allowlists"
   
   $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIDataAdapter($sql, $conn)
   $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable
   $da.Fill($dt)
   
   $dt.Rows | foreach {
   	Write-Host $_.type $_.value
   }