Move unread emails to other folder in Outlook inbox using c#

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Hello,

I am using below code to move all unread emails to another folder from inbox in outlook.
But this code was not working properly, for example if 4 emails are in unread condition it moves only 2 emails to this folder .so it was failed for remaining 2 mails .
Can u please guide to resolve the issue.

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application myApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationClass();
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.NameSpace mapiNameSpace = myApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder myInbox = mapiNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
            //            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem newEmail = null;
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem movemail = null;
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Items items = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Items)myInbox.Items;
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder destFolder = myInbox.Folders["Arch"];
            items.Restrict("[UnRead] = true");
            // Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder destFolder1 = mapiNameSpace.Folders["CQ Web"];
            foreach (object eMail in items.Restrict("[UnRead] = true"))
            {
                
                    movemail = eMail as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem;
                    if (movemail != null)
                    {

                        
                        movemail.Move(destFolder);
                        
                    }
                }                
            
        }
    }
}

Posted 2-Apr-15 0:15am

Arul R Ece

Updated 24-Jul-18 1:04am

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Member 13923791 · Answer 1 · 2018-07-24T01:04:00

That issue come because number of email in inbox folder will be degree each time you moved.To fix this error, don't use foreach function, please using for. Bellow is code I was used:

MAPIFolder inBox = this.Application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
            Items items = inBox.Items;
            //MailItem moveMail = null;
            //items.Restrict("[UnRead] = true");
            MAPIFolder destFolder = inBox.Folders["Fishing"];
            MessageBox.Show(items.Count.ToString());
            //MessageBox.Show(items.ToString());
            //while (items.Count != 0)
            //foreach (MailItem eMail in items)
            int ItemsCount = items.Count;
            for(int i=ItemsCount;i>0;i--)
            {
                try
                {
                    {
                        if (items[i].Subject.Contains("Fishing"))
                        {
                                items[i].Move(destFolder);
                            MessageBox.Show("Done!");
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (System.Exception ex)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Error when moving email: "+ex);
                }
            }

pietar · Answer 2 · 2017-05-15T00:42:00

Solution 1

For some reason the

C#

items.Restrict("[UnRead] = true")

won't work that way. I encountered this problem writing an outlook macro. The not-so-nice workaround to this is to use a while loop:

C#

while(items.Restrict("[UnRead] = true").Count > 0) {
    foreach(...)

Posted 15-May-17 0:42am

pietar

Updated 15-May-17 0:43am

v2

Member 13300545 · Answer 3 · 2017-07-08T23:39:00

Solution 2

The above code which is correct it moves all the unread email to desired subfolder location , but at the same time it hard deleting unread email & email are getting dumped in "Restored deleted email from server "

Please provide me solution without getting dumped unread email to "restored delete email from server"

Thanks

Posted 8-Jul-17 23:39pm

Member 13300545

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