EWS Managed API: Conversation

Question

Can someone explain to me what exactly Conversations in EWS Managed API are and how i use them?

I couldn't find much helpful information on the web.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello codingHero92,

The About Conversations topic gives a brief overview of the Conversations feature. In short, this feature allows for easier management of email threads. You can think about it as automated rules for email threads.  

The Applying Conversation Actions topic gives an example of how to setup automatic categorization and move action on all

With regards,

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Answer 2

Seems like the conversations feature is available starting with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Right ?

Is there any example on Exchange Server 2010 ? Such as find the first/last item of a conversation...

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Answer 3

rita_zhao1,

The answer to your question about the conversations feature is a bit ambiguous. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 introduced two new operations:

FindConversation Operation

ApplyConversationAction Operation

 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 and versions before do expose conversation properties such as the ConversationIndex and the ConversationTopic properties. The How to get previous/next email in EWS? forum thread identifies how to group or sort items that are in a conversation. You should be able to use these two properties to find the first and last items in a conversation.

So in short, the Conversation features are new to EWS in Exchange 2010 SP1. At the same time, conversation properties have been available in all versions of EWS.

With regards, 

 

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Answer 4

Thank you Michael.

The version of Exchange server which I am using is SP1 now. Those articles are quite useful !

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