Gmail account doesnt crawl 'All Mail' folder

Question

Hi,

We are using REBEX component for Email Crawling different accounts. When we are crawling any gmail account then we are considering all the mail box folders created inside the account. We are able to fetch "Travel", "Receipts","Personal","Work","[Gmail]" and "Inbox" folders. But there is 'All Mail' folder also in the account. Question is why Rebex component not taking into account this folder as well. Please suggest on this.

Thanks Sanjay

Answer 1

The 'All Mail' folder is special system label under the '[Gmail]' folder.

To select the 'All Mail' folder, please call the imap.SelectFolder("[Gmail]/All Mail").

To list subfolders of the '[Gmail]' folder, please call the imap.GetFolderList("[Gmail]") method.

Comments

I am selecting all the mail folders and then also lloking for subfolders, if any created inside root folders. When I am getting "[Gmail]" as root folder in first iteration and next time when I am doing imapConnection.SelectFolder(folder); // where folder = "[Gmail]" it gives exception as "Invalid folder: [Gmail] (Failure) (NO)."

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Actually i m doing, imapConnection.SelectFolder(folder);

// Get the sub-folders under currently selected folder ImapFolderCollection subFolders = imapConnection.GetFolderList(folder);

Can I only use second line of code?

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Gmail doesn't support to select the '[Gmail]' folder. But you can list and select its subfolders.