How to Get serverID from LongID in EAS

Question

Hi guys,

I am searching exchange server for mails using free text as query the response i get is longId and other fields... but what i really want is serverId of the mail is there any way to get the search result as serverId or is there anyway i can get serverId from longId.... as my requirement is serverid only not the body, subject or any other fields

Regards,
Manjunath
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Answer 1

Hi Manjunath,

This forum is for the technical discussion covering the Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation that can  be found here.  The protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.  If you have specific questions related to the Microsoft Exchange Server protocol documentation then this is the place that we can help.

If your questions is specific to Exchange Server development there is a helpful technical community on the Microsoft TechNet that is focused on Exchange Server development found here.  The forum covers topics such as Exchange Web Services (EWS), WebDAV, APIs, application conversion and general application development against Exchange Server.

When posting to this forum or the Exchange Development Forum it would be helpful to provide background information about your environment and proposed solution such as:

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·         Programming language used to develop your solution.

·         Description of your Exchange topology.

This would better enable other developers on the forum to help you with your questions.

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Developer Consultant

Answer 2

Hi Manjunath,

Sorry I missed the reference to Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) in the title.  I have contacted Dominic Salemno who will be investigating your question and will be following up with you. 

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Developer Consultant

Answer 3

Guys any solution?

Answer 4

Manjunath,

We are still investigating this and will be following up with you as things progress.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 5

Manjunath,

Could you provide any more information or some samples to clarify what you are asking?

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 6

Manjunath,

I need more information to proceed with answering your question. I will archive the previous information provided until you can provide some examples or more clarifying information.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 7

Hi Dominic,

I am Manjunath's colleague and will be folowing up this query loop from now onwards.

Let me clarify the doubt once again.

We have Thunderbird as email client, We have configured exchagne account into Thunderbird.

There is an option( in Thunderbird) to search a mail in exchange server. Suppose you put some string say "Dominic" either in TO,CC,BCC ,FROM,BODY  fields  of search window of Thunderbird.

It will send that search request to exchange server through proxy server( which we have developed, we are mapping IMAP requests coming from Thunderbird to Exchane active sync request).

Exchange server  will search the mails containing the string"Dominic" and it will send the ID's of those emails.
The Id's will be LONGIDs' like this "asfafhsfas985239242424lkfksfs8325nefafsaf9052l5nwkfnwsr903252lnwkfs982534klsfakslfksafalfaaf".

Once I get this LONGID from exchange server , I need to convert it to SERVER ID which will be in numeric format.
Once I will convert it to Server Id, then I can easily find out the mail which is having this server Id.

We want to convert this LONG ID to SERVER ID.

Please provide your support on this.

Regards,
Subodh

Answer 8

Hi Subodh,

I am investigating this issue with the most recent information provided.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 9

Hi Subodh,

I am still investigating this issue, I will update you as things progress.

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 10

Greetings Manjunath,

 

I have finished my investigation into this matter and this is what I have concluded:

 

There is no direct conversion possible from LongId to ServerId. However, you could perform a search query as outlined in [MS-ASCMD] (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd299441.aspx) in Section 4.5.3 to obtain the LongId of a message. Subsequently, you then could use the LongId in a Fetch operation to retrieve the message in question (Detailed in Section 4.5.3.4).

 

Does this information assist you?

Dominic Salemno
Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Answer 11

Thanx for the support domnic