RE: MS Outlook Module - Get only unread email & Set email as Read

David Catalan — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:52:17 GMT

It is not possible get an email list with only unread emails. The behavior of the MSOutlook module is the same as you can get using the GUI. When you access to a folder, you see by default all the emails.

The IOlMailItem object contains a property to know whether the email has been read. You can use mailItem.getUnread() method.

To mark an email as read, you can do the same thing as in the GUI, show the email, and close it.

Here you are an example:

			IOlFolderFW criteria = new OlFolderFW();
			criteria.setFolderPath("\\\\myAccount@myCompany.com\\Inbox");
			List<IOlFolder> folderList = outlook.getOlFolderManager().findFolder(criteria);
			         
			List<IOlMailItem> mailList = outlook.getOlFolderManager().getMailList(folderList.get(0).getEntryID());
			         
			for (IOlMailItem mailItem : mailList) {
				if (mailItem.getUnRead()) {
					server.info("Mail Unread, Subject <"+mailItem.getSubject()+">, Sender <"+mailItem.getSenderName()+">");
					outlook.getOlMailManager().showMail(mailItem);
					//Do Something....
					outlook.getOlMailManager().closeMail(mailItem.getEntryID(), EInspectorClose.DISCARD);
				}
			}

To manage this type of automation I recommend you don't use the unread property to decide whether an email must be processed or not. I think it is better process all emails in the input folder. When an email is processed, the robot can move the email to another folder ( called "processed" for example), to not be processed twice..