Moving email programmatically in Exchange Online issue

Question

I have some code that moves emails from a folder to another folder in C#.

I use EAGetMail for moving the emails. I tested this code on a basic Office365 account and it works fine, unfortunatelly I have issue with Exchange Online (plan 1).
For Office365 I can move the email, with Exchange Online the mail is not found whereas the Message-ID is retrieved.
Is this a configuration issue ?

    public MoveEmailResponse MoveEmail(EmailAccountSettings emailAccountSettings)
    {
        try
        {
            MailServer oServer = Utils.SetMailServer(emailAccountSettings);
            MailClient oClient = new MailClient("TryIt");
            oServer.SSLConnection = emailAccountSettings.Authentication.Ssl;
            oServer.Port = emailAccountSettings.Authentication.ServerPort;
            oClient.Connect(oServer);

            Imap4Folder storageRootFolder = Utils.FindFolder(emailAccountSettings.ExchangeRootFolder, oClient.GetFolders());
            if (storageRootFolder == null)
            {
                throw new Exception("Folder not found!");
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Found !!");
            oClient.SelectFolder(storageRootFolder);
            MailInfo[] infos = oClient.GetMailInfos();
            Console.WriteLine("Nombre de mails dans le folder : " + storageRootFolder + " / "  + infos.Length);
           // step 1: create folders in inbox folder
           if (emailAccountSettings.StoragePath != null)
           {
               // split full path
               Utils.CreateExchangeStorageFolders(oClient, emailAccountSettings.StoragePath);
           }
           if (emailAccountSettings.StoragePath != null)
           {
               oClient.GetMailInfosParam.HeaderContains = emailAccountSettings.EmailId;
               infos = oClient.GetMailInfos();

               if (infos.Length > 0)
               {
                   MailInfo info = oClient.GetMailInfos()[0];

                   var folderPaths = emailAccountSettings.StoragePath.Split('/');
                   var count = 1;
                   // create folder path with \
                   var results = folderPaths.Select(x => 
                       string.Join("\", folderPaths.Take(count++))).ToList();
                   var maxIndex = results.Count - 1;
                   // taking the last element of the path 
                   oClient.Move(info, Utils.FindFolder(results[maxIndex], oClient.Imap4Folders));
                   oClient.Quit();
                   return new MoveEmailResponse("OK", "Email moved");
               }
           }
           return new MoveEmailResponse("KO", "Mail not found");
       }
       catch (Exception exception)
       {
            return new MoveEmailResponse("KO", "WebException: " + exception.Message);
        }
    }

The second implementation works fine but is less elegant. We're looping all headers of all mails whereas the previous code was using a feature of EAGetMail:

    public MoveEmailResponse MoveEmail(EmailAccountSettings emailAccountSettings)
    {
        try
        {
            MailServer oServer = Utils.SetMailServer(emailAccountSettings);
            MailClient oClient = new MailClient("TryIt");
            oServer.SSLConnection = emailAccountSettings.Authentication.Ssl;
            oServer.Port = emailAccountSettings.Authentication.ServerPort;
            oClient.Connect(oServer);

            Imap4Folder storageRootFolder = Utils.FindFolder(emailAccountSettings.ExchangeRootFolder, oClient.GetFolders());
            if (storageRootFolder == null)
            {
                throw new Exception("Folder not found!");
            }
            else
            {
                oClient.SelectFolder(storageRootFolder);

                // step 1: create folders in inbox folder
                if (emailAccountSettings.StoragePath != null)
                {
                    // split full path
                    Utils.CreateExchangeStorageFolders(oClient, emailAccountSettings.StoragePath);
                }

                MailInfo[] infos = oClient.GetMailInfos();
                for (int i = 0; i < infos.Length; i++)
                {
                    MailInfo info = infos[i];
                    Mail oMail = oClient.GetMail(info);

                    foreach (var headerItem in oMail.Headers.ToList())
                    {
                        if (headerItem.HeaderValue.Contains(emailAccountSettings.EmailId) || 
                            headerItem.DecodedValue.Contains(emailAccountSettings.EmailId))
                        {

                            if (emailAccountSettings.StoragePath != null)
                            {
                                var folderPaths = emailAccountSettings.StoragePath.Split('/');
                                var count = 1;
                                var results = folderPaths.Select(x =>
                                    string.Join("\", folderPaths.Take(count++))).ToList();
                                var maxIndex = results.Count - 1;
                                oClient.Move(info, Utils.FindFolder(results[maxIndex], oClient.Imap4Folders));
                                Console.WriteLine("Email moved");
                                return new MoveEmailResponse("OK", "Email moved");
                            }
                            return new MoveEmailResponse("KO", "Mail not found");
                        }
                    }
                    oClient.Quit();
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Completed");
            return new MoveEmailResponse("KO", "Mail not found");
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            return new MoveEmailResponse("KO", "WebException: " + exception.Message);
        }
    }

Thanks

Answer

@David Vera , based on my test, you could try the following code to move email from one folder to another folder.

            ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1);  
            service.Credentials= new WebCredentials("username@hotmail.com", "password");  
            service.Url = new Uri("https://outlook.office365.com/ews/exchange.asmx");  
            Folder rootfolder = Folder.Bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.MsgFolderRoot);  
            rootfolder.Load();  
            foreach (Folder folder in rootfolder.FindFolders(new FolderView(100)))  
            {  
                // Finds the emails in a certain folder, in this case the Junk Email  
                FindItemsResults findResults = service.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.JunkEmail, new ItemView(10));  
  
                // This IF limits what folder the program will seek  
                if (folder.DisplayName == "Test")  
                {  
                    // Trust me, the ID is a pain if you want to manually copy and paste it. This stores it in a variable  
                    var fid = folder.Id;  
                    Console.WriteLine(fid);  
                    foreach (Item item in findResults.Items)  
                    {  
                        // Load the email, move the email into the id.  Note that MOVE needs a valid ID, which is why storing the ID in a variable works easily.  
                        item.Load();  
                        item.Move(fid);  
                    }  
                }  
            }

Note: I moved two emails from Junk Email Folder to Test Folder. It works for me.

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