How can I move an attachment into a GW folder?

[dgerisch]

I have an automated routine that sends mail to a particular mailbox. I used Formativ, and created an applet that does a Forward As Attachment to take the message of interest and deliver it to the particular mailbox. This all works well.

What I want to do next is to open the message in the destination mailbox, and then copy the attachment to another GroupWise folder. The attachment is actually always a GW message, and I can tell that it has a GW message ID. How can I copy/move the attachment (an attached GW mail message) into a GroupWise folder?

If it helps to understand what I am doing, the messages of interest are spam, and the destination folder in GroupWise is accessed by IMAP by the anti-spam software to train against. The first Formativ applet forwards the spam as an attachment to the training mailbox, and I want to write another applet to copy those attachments into the training mailbox SPAM folder.

Thanks!

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[Support 3]

This is one of the limitation to the GroupWise API to not allow to move attached message. Not sure about whether there is any method exists in SOAP API.

Just to see whether any changes in GW 7.0.2, I have tried the following sample code to move the attached message (I have a plain text message with an embedded message) but it failed with error message “An invalid argument was passed in the function call.”. I have comment-out the code to move the root message which works.

  
  dim oMsg
  dim oSourceFolder
  dim oDestinationFolder

  ' Destination folder
  set oDestinationFolder = groupwise.account.allfolders.itembyname("Notes")

  ' selected message which contains the attach message.
  set oMsg = client.clientstate.commandmessage

  ' Access message source folder
  set oSourceFolder = oMsg.EnclosingFolders.item(1)
  msgbox "Source Folder: " & oSourceFolder.name

  ' Access the attach message
  set oAttachment = oMsg.attachments(1)
  msgbox "Attachment: " & oAttachment.displayname

  ' Move the attach message to a destination folder (DOES NOT WORK)
  if (oAttachment.ObjType = 2) then
    msgbox oAttachment.message.messageid
    call oSourceFolder.messages.move(oAttachment.message.messageid, oDestinationFolder.messages)
  end if

  ' Works: Move root message to destination folder
  'call oSourceFolder.messages.move(oMsg.messageid, oDestinationFolder.messages)

  set oDestinationFolder = nothing
  set oSourceFolder = nothing
  set oAttachment = nothing
  set oMsg = nothing

As this type of enquiry is related to the groupWise API, you may consider to post a message to the Novell Developer Support forum (http://forums.novell.com/category/developer.tpt).

Regards,
Advansys Support

[dgerisch]

Thank you very much for giving it a try. I’ve been getting error messages, but I don’t know the system well enough to be able to tell if it was a syntax error on my part, or a “doesn’t work, as designed” limitation of the API.

I really appreciate you guys working out the solution (even if the answer is “it’s broken”)

Thank you very much.

[Support 3]

Thanks for your feedback.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[dgerisch]

Markus out in the Novell Object API Forum pointed out that I could clone the attachment as a new message, and move that to the folder I want. So I used the code you wrote, added a little bit, and it works. 🙂

  ' Move the attach message to a destination folder (WORKS)
  if (oAttachment.ObjType = 2) then
    msgbox oAttachment.message.messageid
    set oAttachmentClone = oAttachment.message.Clone
    call oSourceFolder.messages.move(oAttachmentClone.messageid, oDestinationFolder.messages)
  end if

[Support 3]

Thanks for sharing your ideas. Keep up the good work .

Regards,
Advansys Support

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