Problems Searching (IMAP)

Question

Hello

We are having problems using the IMAP search against Office 365 (Exchange Server).

The code is very simple. Search parameters are: from and Date. On a second test we try with from ,date and a custom X-Header

e SelectFolder(folder);

String CleanFrom = GetCleanEmail(from);

List<ImapSearchParameter> Params = new List<ImapSearchParameter>();

if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(CleanFrom))
   Params.Add(ImapSearchParameter.From(CleanFrom));

if ((date.HasValue) && (date.Value.Between(MinDate, MaxDate)))
    Params.Add(ImapSearchParameter.Sent(date.Value));

if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(sourceId))
   Params.Add(ImapSearchParameter.Header(MailFlockXHeader, sourceId));

WaitIdle();

ImapMessageCollection List = Imap.Search(ImapListFields.Envelope, Params.ToArray());

In Both cases messages with different from and x-header are returned.

Some Prints of the parameters and results:

The params:

And the Results (The last one is wrong- note the sender and date). The X-Header is different of the param too. The erratic behavior repeats on several searches.

We are doing something wrong or this is an Exchange bug, or a library bug?

Thank you for the support.

Answer 1

Hello,

I checked your code and found one problem
Searching within custom headers is supported but you will have to Search with ImapListFields.FullHeaders (instead of ImapListFields.Envelope like this):

ImapMessageCollection list = imap.Search(ImapListFields.FullHeaders, pars.ToArray());

ImapListFields.Envelope does only retrieve (from the enum member documentation):

Envelope (date, subject, from, sender, reply-to, to, cc), sequence
number, unique ID, length, flags and received date.

So it means that the "X-MailFlock" header will be ignored during your above Search.

So please try to Search with ImapListFields.FullHeaders as suggested and let me know whether it solves your problem.

Comments

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